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UK MEDICAL SCHOOLS
Cambridge Medical School
Cambridge. six-year undergraduate (3-year tripos + 3-year clinical) and 4-year graduate-entry course.
Cambridge Medical School is located in Cambridge. The standard course is a six-year undergraduate (3-year tripos + 3-year clinical) and 4-year graduate-entry course. Like Oxford, Cambridge retains a classical preclinical-clinical split. Students complete the Medical Sciences Tripos (a full undergraduate degree including a substantial Part II in a specialist field) before progressing to the clinical school. The course is known for the breadth and academic rigour of its preclinical training.
Cambridge is collegiate; applicants apply to a college (or are pooled). The Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine (CGCM) is the four-year graduate-entry route and admits a smaller cohort with its own interview process.
Entry requirements, the weighting given to the UCAT, GAMSAT or other admissions tests, and the structure of the interview process all change from year to year. The single most reliable source for any prospective applicant is the medical school's own admissions page for the year of entry — the official link below. Comparative information across all UK medical schools is collated annually by the Medical Schools Council.
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This page is one of a set of medical school and medical careers resources on chrispaton.org, replacing the category landings of New Media Medicine (newmediamedicine.com), an early digital health blog and UK medical school applications community I ran between 2004 and 2014. The original New Media Medicine forum threads — user-generated content from that community — are not republished here; this is original framing written to help current applicants find authoritative information. Always confirm details with the official sources linked above before acting on them.