Medicine MBChB Scottish Community Orientated Medicine (ScotCOM)

This five-year MBChB medicine degree is a unique and innovative offering from the University of St Andrews designed to cater for the needs of aspiring medical professionals and modern healthcare. Medicine MBChB (ScotCOM) is focussed on community-based clinical teaching, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of primary care services, whilst ensuring exposure and understanding of hospital-based care. Additionally, the programme aims to produce graduates for high-demand specialties, address regional healthcare needs, and promote principles of medicine and healthcare improvement.

Entry requirements

This programme is open to applicants who are classed as Home or RUK (rest of UK) for fee purposes. Those who are classed as overseas for fee purposes are not eligible to apply for this course. See the fees status policy for more information.

Applicants to the Medicine MBChB (ScotCOM) programme must meet a number of entry requirements, including both academic and non-academic conditions. Find out more about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements using academic entry explained web page. The entry requirements indicator will help you identify which category of entry requirements are relevant to your circumstances.

If you gained your qualifications outside of the UK, please email the admissions team at medical.admissions@st-andrews.ac.uk to ensure that they meet the entry requirements.

We will not accept an application for both A100 and A10C in the same application cycle. You must choose which programme you wish to study at the point of applying.

Medicine entry requirements How students are selected

Careers

Graduates of Medicine MBChB (ScotCOM) will receive an MBChB degree, which is a primary medical qualification (PMQ). Whilst the focus of the Medicine MBChB (ScotCOM) is community medicine, the programme will enable graduates to pursue any branch of medicine through the normal UK Foundation Programme.

There is a wide range of career opportunities for doctors with more than 60 different specialties available. For more information, please see NHS Medical Careers.

The Careers Centre offers one-to-one advice to all students as well as a programme of events to assist students to build their employability skills.