Successful applicants
If you receive an offer, there are a few checks you will be subject to.
You will be provided with further information on all of these checks upon admission.
Criminal record check
In common with applicants to medical schools nationally, applicants to the MBChB and BSc in Oral Health Sciences programmes are required to complete a criminal record check via the Disclosure Scotland Records Bureau.
The main purpose of this check is to ensure that medical students can safely have contact with vulnerable adults and children that is a feature of many healthcare courses and professions.
Fitness to practise
The University has a responsibility to ensure that students studying on a programme which involves practical training in a clinical environment and which leads to a professional registerable qualification are fit to practise. This is assessed according to the requirements and standards of the profession the student wishes to enter.
The programmes with fitness to practise procedures in place are the MBChB, the BVM&S, the BSc in Oral Health Sciences and the MSc in Anaesthetic Practice.
Health clearance checks
The Department of Health recommends that students admitted to the MBChB and BSc in Oral Health Sciences programmes are required to undergo viral screening for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV, and to be immunised against hepatitis B. This is therefore required as a part of the admissions process.
A positive result in any test will not necessarily preclude entry to the MBChB but may preclude entry to the BSc in Oral Health Sciences because of the nature of the clinical procedures which students are required to undertake in order to obtain a registerable qualification.
This article was published on Mar 9, 2009