Every medicine, dentistry and veterinary guide on this site, organised by topic for the careers lead or form tutor supporting applicants, from deciding and work experience to the UCAT, UCAS, interviews and results day. Free and open, with no account needed.
Written by Dr Akash Gandhi, NHS GP and founder of TheUKCATPeople. Updated 5 October 2026.
In short
Medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine run on a different timetable from the rest of UCAS, with an earlier deadline, an admissions test and interviews that most subjects do not have. These four pages, about an hour in all, give you the whole picture. They are written for a non-medic and assume nothing.
Year 12, autumn term
A student says they want to do medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine. These pages test whether it is the right call and what the route involves, before anyone commits a year to it.
Year 12, all year
Every medical, dental and vet school asks for it, vet schools in weeks rather than days, and the students without family contacts are the ones who need the school's help to find it.
Made for teachers
Year 12, from January; sat July to September
The admissions test most medical and dental schools use to shortlist. Scored out of 2700 since 2025, so any older figure a student quotes is on the wrong scale.
Made for teachers
Year 13, September to mid October
The deadline for these courses is mid October, weeks before the main UCAS date. The statement is now three set questions, and the reference is the one part the school writes.
Made for teachers
Year 13, before the October deadline
Four choices, not five, and each school shortlists differently. A sensible list is the single biggest influence a teacher has on whether a student gets an interview.
Made for teachers
Year 13, November to March
Invitations arrive with little notice from November. Most are MMI circuits; the content is ethics, the NHS and the news, none of which needs a medic to teach it.
Running a mock interview day or a MedSoc is evidence toward Gatsby Benchmarks 4 and 7.
Spring, then results day in August
Offers and rejections land between January and May. Results day for these courses moves within hours, so the plan for a missed grade is made before the day, not on it.
Parents' evenings, any term
Pages written to be sent straight to families, so the whole process does not have to be explained at every appointment, plus a deck for each subject if you run the evening yourself.
Made for teachers
Whole school year
The things a school runs for its cohort: a checklist per year group, a tracker, a MedSoc, a free talk from one of our doctors, and the two cohort courses a school can book.
Made for teachers
Book for your cohort
One short email a term with the dates, deadlines and changes you need to know about, and first access to the school resources as they launch: mock interview packs, parents’ evening decks and cohort tools. It takes a minute, nothing on this page depends on it, and you can stop it at any time.
No. Every guide, tool and profile linked from this page is open on the website with nothing to sign in to and nothing to pay.
The only thing that asks for an email address is the optional teacher registration: one short email a term and first access to school resources. Everything works without it.
It is a map of the site. There are several hundred guides for applicants here, and a careers lead usually needs one or two of them on a particular topic.
So the page is organised by topic, from a Year 12 student deciding whether medicine is right for them through the UCAT, the personal statement, choosing universities and interviews to results day. Each topic says when in the year it matters, and the pages written for teachers sit at the top of it.
Yes. Share the links freely, put them in your careers materials, project them in a lesson or print a page for a noticeboard. There is a share control at the foot of this page if it is easier to send the whole map to a colleague.
The parents' pages in particular are written to be sent straight to families, so you do not have to explain the whole process at every appointment.
Yes. The four pages in the Start here section are written for you. What a teacher influences most is timing, sensible university choices, the reference and a mock interview circuit, and none of that needs clinical knowledge.
Where clinical detail does matter, such as ethics frameworks or how the NHS is structured, the guides linked below explain it from scratch.
Practising NHS doctors, dentists and vets, led by Dr Akash Gandhi, an NHS GP and the founder of TheUKCATPeople. We have supported 2,700+ applicants since 2012, and the guides are reviewed each cycle as requirements change.
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