5c. Transfer to Medicine by existing medical students
Existing medical students can apply for transfer to Year 2, 3 or 4. Students are expected to have already covered the material taught in our earlier years. Our experience is that there may be major differences between medical schools in what is taught in the different years. These difficulties and other logistic problems mean that some overseas medical students have to transfer to our medicine programme one year below their current year of study.
The onus is on the student to supply sufficient information to facilitate a detailed assessment and comparison of curricula. As an indication, this material should contain at least 10 pages of detailed course and lecture descriptions. Applicants should have excellent academic results, and their ranking should be confirmed in a letter of reference from the Dean or equivalent authority of their medical school. Our Year 4 also starts in early July and some potential applicants leave it too late to complete the process before the year starts.