2008 Press Releases
16.01.2008
UCC is delighted to announce the introduction of its Graduate Entry to Medicine programme starting in September, 2008. The UCC Graduate Entry Medicine programme has been developed in conjunction with the Irish Universities Medical Schools Consortium with programmes being introduced also at UCD and NUI Galway.
Starting in September 2008, UCC & UCD will each offer 20 places to graduate entrants with intake numbers rising to 29 at UCC and 57 at UCD and a further 29 places coming on stream at NUI Galway by 2010.
This 4-year degree programme is designed for those individuals who hold a primary degree in any discipline and who would now like to follow a career in medicine.
Entry Requirements
Applicants must hold, or expect to hold by July 2008, a minimum second class honours, grade one (2.1) result in their first honours bachelor degree (NFQ level 8), or equivalent.
Applicants must also have taken the Graduate Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT) after 1st September 2006.
Selection Criteria
Eligible candidates will be selected solely on the basis of their GAMSAT score (i.e. the candidate with the highest GAMSAT score will receive the first offer; the candidate with the next highest score will receive the next offer until all available places are filled).
A total of 20 places are available to EU students in September 2008.
Application Procedure
CAO Application
Applications from EU citizens should be made through the Central Applications Office before 5:15 pm on Friday 1st February 2008. Full details of the application process are available on the CAO website (www.cao.ie).
GAMSAT Application
Application to sit the GAMSAT Test in Ireland should be made to the Australian Council for Educational Research (www.gamsat-ie.org). The online registration and test payment must be completed by 5pm on Friday 8th February 2008.
The next GAMSAT test will take place on Saturday 15th March 2008 at centres in Cork, Dublin and Limerick. Candidates may sit the GAMSAT test at other test centres worldwide, or may submit the results of a GAMSAT test already taken, provided the test was not taken before 1st September 2006.
Tuition Fees
The tuition fee for EU graduate students is €25,000 per annum. The Higher Education Authority will contribute €13,000 per annum towards the fee leaving the student liable for the balance of €12,000 per annum.
Graduate entry programmes are being introduced in a phased basis across Irish medical schools as part of a package of medical education reforms which also includes an expansion of student intake to undergraduate medicine programmes.
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