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UK MEDICAL SCHOOLS
St Andrews School of Medicine (formerly Bute Medical School)
St Andrews (Phase 1) — clinical training elsewhere. three-year preclinical BSc(Hons) with clinical years completed at partner schools.
St Andrews School of Medicine (formerly Bute Medical School) is located in St Andrews (Phase 1) — clinical training elsewhere. The standard course is a three-year preclinical BSc(Hons) with clinical years completed at partner schools. St Andrews offers only the preclinical phase of medical training (years 1–3), awarding a BSc(Hons) on completion. Students then transfer to a partner clinical school (currently several Scottish and other UK schools accept St Andrews students) to complete the MBChB. The school was formerly known as Bute Medical School.
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.