Admissions Policy and Procedure
1. Introduction
2. Admissions Policy and Procedures
3. Applications
4. How your application will be assessed
5. Assessing your application — next step
1. Introduction
This is for the information of any prospective or current disabled students. It specifies the University's policies on disability, and gives you details of the services and facilities which we provide. The document also constitutes the University's Disability Statement.
To receive this information in an alternative format, (i.e. large print, audio, braille), please contact Michael Woodman.
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2. Admissions Policy and Procedures
The University is keen to support disabled applicants, and will help you assess the provision needed to support you in completing the course. At the same time, as several of our courses are vocational, we must establish that entrants are medically fit to complete the course and to practise as healthcare professionals.
In considering your application to study at St George’s, we will assess both of these things:
- whether the University can meet your needs to undertake and complete the course; and
- whether, in the case of professional registrable qualifications (medicine, physiotherapy and radiography), you meet the requirements for ‘fitness to practise’ in those professions.
We will accept any student who has the required entrance qualifications and who is capable of completing the course unless the cost to the University of making the necessary adjustment is unfeasible.
Once accepted the student will be allowed to continue to complete the course provided that the usual academic standards are met.
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3. Applications
It is important that when you apply, you specify that you have a disability. Applications for undergraduate courses are made through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and the UCAS application form has provision for declaring information.
Applications for postgraduate courses and professional post-registration courses in nursing and midwifery are made direct to the University, and you should indicate in your application that you have a disability, and the nature of the disability.
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4. How your application will be assessed
We consider support requirements and ‘fitness to practise’ separately from academic ability. We aim to ensure that both you and the University have a clear understanding of what requirements there are and how well they can be met.
There are different selection procedures for the different courses, so the timing of your assessment will depend upon for which course you are applying:
| 5 year MBBS programme and BSc programmes
Your application will first be assessed on academic grounds for interview before regard is given to any disability. If you are selected for interview the UCAS form will be checked for mention of a disability, and the assessment of individual needs and fitness to practise will be done after the interview. |
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MBBS Graduate Entry Programme
You may sit the entrance test (GAMSAT) if you fulfil the requirements (previous degree with 2:2 honours /UK residency). If your disability means you will need support during the course please inform admissions as soon as possible. You may contact Carolyn Colaco, (Admissions Manager) for an informal discussion before registering for GAMSAT. Because of the short time available between receiving the GAMSAT results and the interviews it is not feasible formally to assess individual needs and fitness to practise before the interviews, and this is done after selection is completed. |
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Postgraduate courses and post-registration nursing/midwifery courses
Your application will first be assessed on academic grounds before regard is given to any disability. Where interviews are part of the selection process, the assessment of individual needs and (where appropriate) fitness to practise will be done prior to interview. Where interviews are not part of the selection process, this assessment will take place before any offer of a place is made. |
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5. Assessing your application — next step
You will be invited to discuss any difficulties that might arise, and what provision might help you complete the course with Carolyn Colaco, (Admissions Manager). The matter will then be referred to the Student Health Progress Panel.
You will be asked to complete a full Health Questionnaire and to attend for a medical examination, and a report from the Occupational Health Physician will be available to the Panel.
Further reports may be requested from your general practitioner and from any specialist who you have seen in relation to your disability.
The Panel will consider whether it is feasible to support you in the University, or whether any difficulties related to your disability are likely to preclude your being able to practise safely. Regardless of whether your application is referred to the Panel, you should discuss with Carolyn Colaco any difficulties you anticipate.
All offers for a place as a full-time student (including for applicants who have not declared a disability) are made subject to satisfactory health clearance.
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