Medicine Clearing Guide 2026

What is medicine Clearing and how does UCAS Clearing work?

UCAS Clearing is the system that matches applicants to university places that have not been filled. Anyone without a confirmed place can use it, whether you received no offers, declined the ones you had, or missed your grades.

Medicine is different from most subjects in one important way. Places are heavily oversubscribed, so most medical schools fill every seat long before Clearing opens. Some years a handful of schools have vacancies. Some years almost none do.

Medical school Clearing effectively begins on A-level results day, Thursday 13 August 2026, when grades are released and universities know which offer holders they have lost.

You can use Clearing if:

• You are applying after 30 June (difficult if you have not sat the UCAT)
• You did not receive any offers, or none you wanted to accept
• You did not meet the conditions of your offers
• You have declined your firm place using the 'decline my place' button in your application

How realistic is a medicine place through Clearing?

Honest answer: it is difficult, and it has been getting harder. Competition for medicine has risen and fewer seats go unfilled. But "difficult" is not "impossible", and the picture swings a lot year to year.

In 2022 it was reported that there were no A100 places in Clearing, with unconfirmed reports of places at Sunderland. In 2023 that changed and four medical schools offered places through Clearing: King's, St George's, Buckingham and Hull York. In 2024 more schools were reported to have places, including Bangor, Brunel, Newcastle, Aberdeen, Kent and Medway, Edge Hill and Leeds.

The lesson is that you cannot predict it, and you should never plan around it. What you can do is be completely ready on the morning, which is what the rest of this guide covers.

One thing that no longer exists: UCAS Adjustment, the old service that let students who exceeded their offer swap course while keeping their original place, was scrapped after summer 2021. If you do better than expected and want to look elsewhere, you now use the 'Decline my place' self release button, which puts you into Clearing and Clearing Plus. Read our full walkthrough in our guide to accepting a medical school offer on UCAS.

Read more: UCAT Medical School Entry Requirements

When does clearing 2026 open?

General UCAS Clearing for 2026 entry runs from 2 July to 19 October 2026. Clearing opens to anyone without a confirmed place once they have their results.

However, for medicine applicants, it opens on Thursday 13th August 2026.

Which medical schools are in Clearing for 2026 entry?

It is impossible to predict which universities will enter Clearing for 2026 entry. The only reliable source is each university’s own admissions page, and many confirm only shortly before, or on, results day. Ignore any list that claims to know in advance.

Confirmed in Clearing for 2026 entry

Live now. Last checked at 10:30 on Thursday 13 August 2026. Places at this level go in minutes, so refresh this page before you ring anyone.

Open now: Hull York Medical School

Hull York Medical School is asking Clearing applicants to call. In their own words this morning: “We have a very small number of results pending that may allow us to release some undergraduate medicine places for 2026 entry.”

Read that precisely. These are places that may be released, not places confirmed. To be considered you must be eligible for Clearing, meet their existing 2026 academic entry criteria, and sit an interview.

Call HYMS on 01904 221896. Lines are open today and Friday 14 August, 8am to 6pm. They have not restricted this to international applicants, which makes it the only medicine route we have verified today that a home applicant can ring.

Opened and already closed: Edge Hill

Edge Hill opened Medicine to home applicants this morning. It has already closed. Their medicine Clearing page now reads: “Applications for our Medicine courses are now closed for September 2026 entry.”

That is the lesson of the day, and it is worth taking even though you have missed this one. Medicine places in Clearing go in minutes, not hours. If a school you want appears, ring it straight away, and keep ringing the schools you originally applied to.

Beyond Hull York, every other open door we have found is restricted to international fee status. We checked all 51 UK medical schools against their own websites on 11 August and rechecked the open ones this morning.

Open, but international fee status only

All five routes below are closed to home applicants. We have kept them here because they are real, and because international applicants reading this on results day have very little else to work from.

• Newcastle University, Medicine A100. The only school with Medicine confirmed in UCAS Clearing for international applicants. Their page says the course “is open for International Clearing applications for 2026 entry”, while separately stating it “is not available in Clearing 2026” for everyone else. Application is by online form only, which opened at 8am this morning, and Newcastle says the form “will close once we have received sufficient applications”. Do not sit on it. You need a UCAT from the 2025 or 2026 cycle and to be free for an online interview between 1pm and 4pm this afternoon.
• St Mary's University, Twickenham, Medicine MBBS. Their School of Medicine page states: "We have limited places in Clearing 2026 for international students to study MBBS Medicine." UK and Irish applicants cannot apply. There is no phone number anywhere on their site, so email med.admissions@stmarys.ac.uk. This is a new school and does not yet hold GMC accreditation: it says students would transfer to the University of Lancashire if accreditation were not granted.
• University of Hertfordshire, Medicine MBBS. Their course page carries the banner "Places are available for 2026 entry", and it was still there on 11 August 2026. But this is not Clearing, and it is not open to you if you are a home applicant. Hertfordshire states the MBBS "will initially be available to international students only", and its Clearing FAQ says international applicants "can apply directly to Herts, so don’t need to go through Clearing". Note also that its interview window ran from November 2025 to April 2026 and has closed. A brand new school taking its first cohort in September 2026, delivered with support from City St George’s, University of London, at £42,000 a year. It does not yet hold GMC accreditation and names City St George’s as its contingency partner.
• University of Worcester, Medicine (Graduate Entry) MBChB. Their course page says "We are still open to applications from international students for September 2026 entry", and that was still true on 11 August 2026. The page does not describe this as Clearing, so treat it as a direct late application route rather than a Clearing vacancy. Worcester’s own Clearing course list runs to 138 courses and does not include the MBChB. Four year graduate entry, open to any degree discipline, UCAT or GAMSAT accepted.
• University of Lancashire, Medicine with Foundation Year A101. Open to international applicants only, and not a Clearing course. Lancashire’s Clearing page states plainly that "Clearing is not open for international students", and neither medicine course carries the "Available in Clearing" marker that its other courses do. International applicants apply directly through Lancashire’s own portal or UCAS. Their published international deadline for 2026 entry has already passed, so ring 01772 830777 or email IAdmissions@uclan.ac.uk before counting on it.

Two routes that are open to UK applicants

Neither is a medical degree, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Both are courses the universities themselves point medicine applicants towards, both are genuinely in Clearing today, and both are a great deal better than a wasted afternoon on the phone.

• University of Lancashire, BSc Medical Sciences with Foundation Year. Carries the "Available in Clearing" marker and a "we have places available on this course" panel. Lancashire directs UK applicants here from its international only medicine page. Based in Burnley, 96 UCAS points. Call 01772 830777.
• University of Worcester, Biomedical Science BSc. Worcester’s own words: "We’ll even guarantee you a Medicine interview if you meet the entry requirements when you graduate." Call the Clearing hotline on 01905 544 433 from 8am on Thursday.

Reported but not open

• University of Surrey, Medicine (Graduate Entry) BMBS. Surrey’s own Clearing page for this course reads "This course is now full, please see our course list for other available courses." Some third party sites were still listing it as open to international applicants. The university’s own page is the one to trust.

Schools that have ruled Medicine out in writing

These are not predictions. Each of the following has said so on its own website: Aberdeen, Aston, Brunel, Dundee, Edinburgh, Keele, Leeds, Lincoln, Nottingham, Queen Mary, Southampton, St Andrews and Warwick. Cambridge, Imperial and Oxford do not enter Clearing at all.

On the day, also check the official UCAS Clearing search, and phone every university you originally applied to, because spaces can open there first. Then work through the schools that have entered Clearing before.

Which medical schools have entered Clearing before? Your call list

It is almost impossible to predict which universities will be in Clearing, unless they say so on their own website. Keep checking, because the picture changes late.

Here is what happened in each of the last few cycles. Work down from the most recent year, because that is the order worth calling in on results-day morning.

2025 entry

The following medical schools confirmed that they entered Clearing for 2025 entry. Not exhaustive.

• Newcastle, A100. Applications opened at 08:00 on results day, with a panel interview on MS Teams the same day. Anyone holding a UCAT score from 2023 onwards could apply. Home students only. Newcastle's own A100 Clearing page.
• UCL, A100. Reported at the time as international applicants only. UCL medicine guide.
• Sunderland, A100. Sunderland medicine guide.
• Buckingham, January 2026 start. Open to both home and international students. It is a private medical school, so check the fees carefully before you call. Buckingham medicine guide.

Other courses that may also have been available in 2025:

• Lincoln, Medicine with a Gateway Year. You must meet Lincoln's contextual requirements as well as the academic ones.
• UCLan, Medicine with a Foundation Year. Now the University of Lancashire, following a rebrand. UCLan medicine guide.
• Bangor. Said it was closed for Clearing, but you could register for the waitlist.
• Chester. Graduate entry medicine.
• Queen Mary University of London's Malta campus. Note both the fees and that the course is taught in Malta. Entry requirements.

2024 entry

The following medical schools were rumoured to have gone into UCAS Clearing for 2024 entry. A sensible place to start, but none of these was confirmed by the university.

• Aberdeen
• Bangor
• Brunel
• Edge Hill. Edge Hill medicine guide.
• Kent and Medway
• Leeds
• Newcastle

Note that Sunderland stated it would not enter Clearing in 2024, because it was using a reserve list instead. Read more about waitlists and reserve lists.

2023 entry

At least five medical schools went into Clearing for 2023 entry:

• The University of Buckingham. Led on offers made through Clearing for two years running, so a good place to start, but note the fees. Buckingham medicine guide.
• St George's, University of London. 2023: 1,374 applicants, 37 invited to interview, 13 offers. 2022: did not enter Clearing. 2021: 1,524 applicants, 140 invited to interview, 55 offers. St George's medicine guide.
• King's College London. 2023: 223 applications, 37 interviews, 23 offers, run first come first served by telephone. Some of those applicants used our 1 to 1 interview tutoring. Did not enter Clearing in 2021 or 2022. King's medicine guide.
• Hull York Medical School. Hull York medicine guide.
• Queen Mary's Malta. Again, note the fees.

Other medical schools that offered places around A-level results day, not necessarily via Clearing:

• UCL. Via its waitlist. UCL medicine guide.
• Sheffield. Did not enter Clearing, but offered interviews to some applicants who called and met the required grades. Sheffield medicine guide.
• Leicester. Did not necessarily enter Clearing, but invited applicants who had not previously been interviewed to interview after results day. 2023: 298 applications, 61 interviews, 35 offers, of which 22 were for 2024 entry (deferred). Average UCAT score 2719, first come first served. Leicester medicine guide.
• Birmingham. 9 A100 interviews, 8 offers given, average UCAT score of those given an offer 2770.
• Nottingham. 2023: 34 applications, 27 interviews, 27 offers, UCAT above 54 on their own scoring, average GCSE 8.41. 2022: 39 applications, 37 interviews, 37 offers, UCAT above 56, average GCSE 8.34.

2022 entry

The following universities were reported to have spaces in Clearing in 2022:

• Edge Hill, A110 Medicine with a Foundation Year. Edge Hill medicine guide.
• Exeter, A100. Reported to have been in Clearing, but unconfirmed. Exeter medicine guide.
• UCLan. International students only. Now the University of Lancashire. UCLan medicine guide.
• Glasgow, A900 Glasgow Access Programme. Glasgow medicine guide.
• Sunderland, A100. Places had to be claimed by phone and filled by 08:19am, which is the single best illustration of how fast this moves. Sunderland medicine guide.

It is also worth contacting every university you originally applied to, to see whether any spaces have opened. That should be high on your priority list, not an afterthought.

Read more: UCAT Medical School Entry Requirements

Read more: Compared, UK Medical School Fees For International Students

Medicine Clearing phone numbers and emails for every UK medical school

Every UK medical school’s Clearing phone number and medicine admissions email is below, with what each number actually connects to and its results day hours. All 51 were read from the universities’ own websites on 11 August 2026.

There is no single medicine Clearing phone number. Each medical school runs its own line, and they are not equivalent. Of the 51 UK medical schools, 35 give you a number to ring for medicine and 16 do not, either because they run Clearing through an online form or because they do not enter Clearing at all. 13 publish no medicine admissions email either.

They are in three groups: the schools worth ringing, the ones open to international applicants only, and the ones that have ruled Medicine out or only take graduates. For the last two groups we have quoted the university word for word and linked the page it is on, so you can check us in one click.

Jump straight to a school: Aberdeen · Anglia Ruskin · Aston · Bangor · Birmingham · Brighton and Sussex (BSMS) · Bristol · Brunel · Buckingham · Cambridge · Cardiff · Chester (graduate entry) · City St George's · Dundee · East Anglia (Norwich) · Edge Hill · Edinburgh · Exeter · Glasgow · Greater Manchester · Hertfordshire · Hull York (HYMS) · Imperial · Keele · Kent and Medway (KMMS) · King's College London · Lancashire · Lancaster · Leeds · Leicester · Lincoln · Liverpool · Manchester · Newcastle · Nottingham · Oxford · Pears Cumbria (graduate entry) · Plymouth · Queen Mary (Barts) · Queen's Belfast · Sheffield · Southampton · St Andrews · St Mary's Twickenham · Sunderland · Surrey (graduate entry) · Swansea (graduate entry) · UCL · Ulster (graduate entry) · Warwick (graduate entry) · Worcester (graduate entry)

Schools worth checking

None of these has ruled Medicine out of Clearing. That is not the same as having places, and most will not. Check the live UCAS Clearing search first, then work down. A general Clearing hotline cannot make a medicine decision, so read the middle column before you dial.

Open, but international fee status only

These five are open in some form for 2026, and none of them is open to a home applicant. Newcastle and St Mary’s are in Clearing proper. Hertfordshire, Worcester and Lancashire are taking direct applications outside Clearing, which is a different thing and worth knowing before you ring.

Ruled out, or not open to A-level applicants

Each of these has said so on its own website, or only admits applicants who already hold a degree. Their words are below with a link to the page. Checked 11 August 2026, and worth rechecking the UCAS Clearing search on the day before ruling anywhere out for good.

What time do medicine Clearing lines open on results day?

Most open at 8am on Thursday 13 August 2026. Leicester and Surrey open earliest at 7am. Southampton, Plymouth and Brunel run latest, to 9pm. Sheffield answers on Thursday and Friday only.

Weekends are patchy and catch people out. Queen’s Belfast closes all weekend, Brunel closes on the Sunday, and several others drop to short Saturday hours. If a school is on your list, check its row before you plan your day around it.

Is a Clearing hotline the same as a medicine admissions line?

No, and this is the trap. Most numbers in the tables reach a central Clearing team who cannot make a medicine decision. Several schools run a busy, well staffed hotline while having ruled Medicine out entirely, so the phone is answered and the answer is no.

The middle column of the first table says what each number actually is. Glasgow states MBChB queries must go by email. Kent and Medway says plainly that it cannot take calls about applications. Liverpool and Edinburgh publish no Clearing number at all and run everything through online forms.

Can you ring a medical school without a Clearing place showing on UCAS?

You can, but it rarely helps and it costs you the morning. Every school we checked says the same thing: the live UCAS Clearing search is the list that counts. King’s College London goes further and asks applicants not to refer themselves through Clearing unless invited.

The exception is Plymouth, whose own medicine page invites a call: it says places are very rare but that you are welcome to ring and check from early August.

Before you ring anyone

Only call a medical school if Medicine is actually showing as available on the official UCAS Clearing search or on that university’s own Clearing page. Ringing on the off chance uses up time you do not have.

Wondering who to ring first? The medical schools that have entered Clearing in previous cycles are set out just above, one group per cycle: 2025 entry, 2024 entry, 2023 entry and 2022 entry. Treat that as a sensible order to work down and nothing more. A school appearing there is not an indication that it will have places this year.

The Ultimate Guide To Planning For UCAS Clearing in 2026

Results Day and Clearing: What to Know and What to Do On The Day [UPDATED]

On results day, you will usually receive an email from UCAS or the university confirming whether you have secured a place. This typically comes in the morning. What happens next will depend on your situation.

A) If your place is confirmed
Congratulations! No further action is needed unless you are considering alternatives or deferring. It can still be useful to understand the clearing process in case anything changes.

B) If you have missed your offer:

• If you had an insurance choice, and you met the offer, this may now become your firm place.
• If you narrowly missed your grades, you can request a priority remark through your school if they agree this is appropriate in your circumstance
• Let the university know you have submitted a remark and wish to be considered if spaces open up. Some students are still accepted at this stage, but it is worth continuing with the steps below just in case.

👉🏻 Read more: A Level Resits Guide For UK Medical Schools

C) If you do not have any offers/missed your offer with lower grades
Clearing becomes your route forward. Here are some practical steps to take:

1) BEFORE: Make a list of universities the day/week before results day:
Go through universities in advance and make a list of those you are interested in. Start with:

• Newer universities
• Universities that have entered clearing in previous years (see below for information on this)

Key Tip: Check their websites carefully (before results day). Some will already state they are not entering clearing this year. If so, you can cross them off your list. Some will have forms that you can fill in to register for interest - it is definitely worth doing this! Have the relevant phone numbers and UCAS codes ready to go.

2) ON THE DAY: Start early
Universities can receive hundreds of calls on results day, so aim to get going first thing in the morning, check UCAS Hub for any medicine courses that pop up that may have places, and keep refreshing to see if more come up during the morning.

3) On the day, call universities directly & quickly

You can call:

• The clearing hotline
• The general admissions office
• The medicine or dentistry admissions team

Ask if they are accepting applicants through clearing and whether you meet their entry requirements.

4. Have your details ready

• You will usually be asked for:
• Your UCAS ID
• A level and GCSE results
• Your UCAT score
• Your Personal Statement (sometimes)

5. Other Tips

1. Be ready for an interview
   If you have not previously interviewed at a university, they may arrange one within the next week. These are usually quite short notice, so keep your availability flexible.
2. Keep checking the UCAS Clearing search
   New Clearing vacancies can appear throughout the day, and less commonly over the following week. Refresh the UCAS Clearing search regularly. UCAS Extra is closed by results day, so Clearing is your only route at this point.

If you do not secure a place through clearing
It is not the end of the road. There are still other options available. You may want to consider:

• Taking a gap year and reapplying (book your UCAT exam, you will need to retake it).
• Resitting your A-levels (and applying to medical schools that accept resits)
• Exploring alternative entry routes

We have written a detailed article to help you understand your options and build a strong plan:

If you finish results day without a place, our most popular companion guide, No Medical School Offers? What To Do Next, walks through reapplying, graduate entry and studying abroad. You can also look at UK foundation and gateway medicine courses, which sometimes appear in Clearing and have contextual entry routes.

👉 No Offers for Medicine? What to Do Next

If you would like tailored help with your next steps, our team offers free consultations and expert support. You are not alone in this there is always a way forward. We support many gap year students through their reapplications via our Ultimate Packages.

Top tips for your medicine clearing phone calls in 2026

Making phone calls for Clearing can be daunting - here are our top tips for success.

• Think before: Have an idea of what you’re going to say beforehand to introduce yourself - it can be helpful to write out a short introduction in advance.
• Prepare information: Make sure that all of your relevant details, including your clearing number, are available to you.
• Know your stuff: Have an idea of what makes that medical school unique, in case you have to answer some questions on the phone.
• Be open: If you didn’t get the results that you wanted, then be prepared to talk about any extenuating circumstances and provide evidence of these. Universities want the best candidates, so will be understanding if there was something that prevented you from performing at your usual level.

Your medicine Clearing results day checklist

Results day moves quickly and the schools that do open places tend to fill them within hours. Work down this list in order. Everything in the first group can be done tonight.

The night before

1. Find your UCAS Personal ID and write it somewhere you can read it aloud.
2. Write out your achieved grades, your GCSEs, your UCAT total out of 2700 and your SJT band on one sheet of paper. You will be asked for all of it and you will not want to be searching.
3. Read the entry requirements for any school you would seriously consider, so you already know whether you meet them.
4. Charge your phone, find your charger, and pick a quiet room. Have a pen and paper next to you.

From 8am on results day

1. Check your UCAS status and find your Clearing number if you have one.
2. Open the official UCAS Clearing search and filter for Medicine. This is the only authoritative vacancy list, and it is the first thing to check every time.
3. Phone every university you originally applied to, because a place can open there before anything reaches Clearing.
4. Only then ring a school from the table above, and only if Medicine is showing as available. Check the middle column first so you are ringing a line that can actually help.

On the call

1. Ask for the course code, whether they will consider your grades, whether they accept resits, what UCAT score they need and whether there is an interview.
2. Write down the name of the person you spoke to and any deadline they give you. If they offer to call back, ask when.
3. Add the Clearing choice in UCAS only once the university has told you to. Adding it before they authorise it can cost you the place.

Foundation year, gateway and graduate entry routes in Clearing

When A100 has nothing, these three routes are where places actually turn up. They are also the ones most applicants overlook on the morning.

Medicine with a foundation year

A six year route: a foundation year that builds the science and study skills you need, then the standard five year MBBS. Historically the most likely medicine course to appear in Clearing. Edge Hill had A110 places in 2022 and the University of Lancashire has listed a foundation year route more recently. Entry requirements are lower than A100 but most of these courses carry contextual eligibility rules, so check whether you qualify before you spend a call on them. See our full guide to UK foundation medicine courses.

Gateway to medicine

Gateway courses are widening participation routes with contextual entry criteria covering things like school performance, household income and care experience. Lincoln listed Medicine with a Gateway Year for 2025 entry. Eligibility is strict and is checked, so read the criteria properly rather than assuming.

Graduate entry medicine in Clearing

If you already hold a degree, graduate entry medicine (GEM) is a separate route with its own late availability. For 2026 entry, Worcester stated on 9 August 2026 that it remained open to international applicants for its four year graduate entry MBChB, while Surrey's own Clearing page said its graduate entry BMBS was full. Chester had graduate entry places for 2025 entry. Most GEM courses want UCAT or GAMSAT, so check which. See our graduate entry medicine guide.

If none of these work out

Dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy and the allied health professions all have their own Clearing picture, and they are worth a serious look rather than a consolation glance. Our dentistry Clearing guide and veterinary Clearing and gateway courses guide cover those routes for 2026 entry.

Searching UCAS and adding a Clearing choice

Once you’re set up and ready for clearing, the process itself is fairly simple. You can find UCAS’ description of the clearing process here.

You should wake up with plenty of time before results are announced, with the UCAS website open and ready to search. Once it updates, use the search function to look for any medical course vacancies.

You should search for "medicine" or “A100”, which is the medicine course code. If you search for “medicine”, you will also see results for associated subjects such as biomedicine which will only slow you down.

If you spot a vacancy, then call the university to ask if they would accept you. Be ready to give your personal ID and Clearing number, and answer some basic questions. If they say that they would make you an offer, then congratulations! Go back to UCAS Track and select the option to ‘Add a Clearing Choice’.

Be aware that you can only add one clearing choice at a time, so make sure that you are adding the university that you want to go to. If you call and they don’t make you an offer, don’t be disheartened - keep calling other universities as you may find another one that does.

Can you go through clearing even if you have an offer?

Yes, you can go through UCAS Clearing even if you have an offer, but you must first release yourself from any offers you have accepted.

To enter Clearing, you would need to:

1. Decline your firm offer through your UCAS Track account, which would then put you into Clearing.
2. If you have a conditional offer and your results meet the requirements, you would need to ask the university to release you.
3. If you have a conditional offer and do not meet the requirements, you may automatically be entered into Clearing.

Remember, once you release yourself from your offers, you cannot revert this decision through UCAS. It's essential to be certain before proceeding.

What is UCAS Extra for medicine?

UCAS Extra is a free service for applicants who have used all their original choices and hold no offers. It lets you add one more choice at a time, before Clearing opens.

Why UCAS Extra rarely helps medicine applicants

Applicants to medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine and veterinary science get four choices rather than the usual five. Because of that, most medicine applicants cannot use Extra at all.

There is one exception. If you used a non medicine fifth choice, or left the fifth choice blank, and you hold no offers, then Extra may be open to you. The button appears automatically in the Choices section of your UCAS application if you are eligible.

How UCAS Extra works

• One course at a time. There is no firm and insurance pairing as in the main round.
• No limit on how many courses you go through in sequence, but you wait on each one.
• After 21 days you can either keep waiting or replace that choice with another.
• You can withdraw an Extra application at any time. Check with the university first in case an offer is on its way.
• If you are applying for a different subject, send a new personal statement that fits it.

Extra and Clearing together

If you accept an offer through Extra and then miss its conditions, you can go into Clearing. If you want to enter Clearing while holding a firm Extra offer, you have to be released by that university, which can take up to 10 days and cannot be reversed.

For 2026 entry, general Clearing opened on 2 July 2026 and runs to 19 October 2026. Most medicine vacancies appear on results day, Thursday 13 August 2026.

Read more: UCAT Medical School Entry Requirements

What are my options if I don’t receive an offer through clearing in 2026?

If you reach the end of Clearing and still don’t have an offer to study medicine, then this isn’t the end of the road for your chances. You still have the following options:

• Reapply next year: You can take a gap year to undertake some activities which may bolster your application, resit the UCAT and prepare to go through the UCAS process once more. If this is your plan, we would recommend contacting one of our medical experts today [For Free!]
• Apply in the future: Study a related course (such as the 5th choice that you may have made) and apply for medicine as a graduate once you have completed an undergraduate degree
• Study abroad: The UK isn’t the only place where you can study medicine. Check out our guide on how to apply to study medicine abroad! This includes studying medicine in Europe or even beyond.
• Study in Ireland: Irish medical schools recruit through a separate system and are a strong option for UK and international students. See our study medicine in Ireland guide and the Irish medical schools hub, or read about applying to study medicine in Europe.
• Other options: Explore other career options in allied healthcare professions. Many of these share similar features to medicine, and you may find them to be similarly appealing.

Even in the worst-case scenario, remember that this isn’t the end of the world. You’ve likely put a lot of time and effort into your application, and it can be extremely disheartening if it doesn’t work out.

However, even if none of the options above appeal to you, there are plenty of other careers which you can pursue to fulfil a passion for science or a desire to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

At TheUKCATPeople, our expert mentors specialise in helping you throughout every stage of your application process. We take on many students each year who are looking to reapply after clearing hasn’t gone their way - why not get in touch with us and see if this option might be right for you?

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If medicine Clearing does not work out, these guides will help you build a stronger application or find an alternative route to becoming a doctor.

• No offers and not sure what to do next? Read No Medical School Offers? What To Do Next.
• Planning a gap year and reapplication? Start with the UCAS medicine application timeline and our UCAT preparation guide, then practise on the UCAT online question bank.
• Worried your score is low? See where to apply with a low UCAT score and the UCAT cut-off scores by university.
• Consider a different route in: UK foundation and gateway medicine courses or graduate entry medicine.
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