Graduate Entry Medicine at Sheffield: 2027 Entry

A101 exists for life science graduates from backgrounds that are under-represented in higher education. Sheffield will only consider you if you meet two or more of the criteria below, judged at the point you finished your A-levels (or equivalent) unless the criterion says otherwise.

• You lived in an area in quintile 1 or 2 of the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (Sheffield has a postcode checker).
• You are care experienced or a care leaver.
• You were an unpaid carer.
• You were estranged from your family.
• You had parenting responsibilities for a child aged 17 or under.
• You were entitled to Free School Meals in the six years before your final GCSE year.
• You are a forced migrant (refugee status, humanitarian protection, limited leave after an asylum claim, or seeking asylum when you started your degree).
• Your parents were unemployed or the main earner worked in a job the ONS classes as NS-SEC 4 to 8.
• You received a 16-19 Bursary or Discretionary Learner Support with an income threshold of £25,000 or below.
• You have a disability declared on your UCAS application.

The course is closed to international applicants: the admissions policy states there are no places for overseas students. If you do not meet the widening participation rule, Sheffield's five-year A100 course is a separate UCAS choice, and graduates who meet its requirements can apply to it.

Sheffield sets an A-level bar as well as a degree bar. You need at least BBB, one of which must be Chemistry or Biology, and all three must have been taken in the same first sitting. GCSEs and AS levels are not considered, apart from English Language at grade 4/C as one route to the English requirement.

• Resits are allowed: one resit per A-level, with all resits taken in the same sitting.
• Further Mathematics, Critical Thinking and General Studies do not count towards the three.
• If your pre-degree A-levels did not include Chemistry or Biology, a Chemistry or Biology A-level taken during or after your degree at grade B or above is accepted.
• International Baccalaureate: 32 points with 5 in three Higher Level subjects including Chemistry or Biology.
• English: GCSE English Language at 4/C, or IELTS 7.5 with at least 7.0 in each component.

Sheffield does not rank applicants on academic grades at this stage, so it says there is no advantage in exceeding the minimum.

Home applicants attend the multiple mini-interview in person. The admissions policy describes eight stations of about eight minutes each, and says station themes are sent to you when you confirm your booking.

The admissions page lists the areas covered: knowledge of Sheffield, medicine in a wider context, good medical practice, attitudes and values, the candidate as a person, communication skills, ethics and information processing. Interviewers do not see your personal statement, although Sheffield says questions often touch on topics applicants write about. It suggests reading the NHS Constitution, NHS values and the GMC's guidance for medical students.

Because a score below 3 in any one section costs you priority in the ranking, it can help to rehearse every station type under time pressure. A mock MMI is one way to find a weak station before the day.