Medicine: Selection Criteria

The personal characteristics we look for in applicants to the A100 course (both the pre-clinical and clinical parts) are listed below.

Personal characteristics: suitability for medicine

• Empathy: ability and willingness to imagine the feelings of others and understand the reasons for the views of others
• Motivation: a reasonably well-informed and strong desire to practise medicine
• Communication: ability to make knowledge and ideas clear using language appropriate to the audience
• Honesty and integrity
• Ethical awareness
• Ability to work with others
• Capacity for sustained and intense work
• Alignment of individual values and behaviours with the values of the NHS Constitution.

Academic potential

• Problem-solving: critical thinking, analytical approach
• Intellectual curiosity: keenness to understand the reason for observations; depth; tendency to look for meaning; enthusiasm and curiosity in science
• Communication skills: willingness and ability to express clearly and effectively; ability to listen; compatibility with tutorial format