Study the SGUL graduate entry medicine degree at the University of Nicosia.
Graduates who wish to study medicine may apply to a standard medical degree or a dedicated graduate-entry programme. It is important to distinguish a separately approved graduate-entry course from advanced entry to a longer degree.
Simply put, graduate-entry medicine is a four-year pathway to qualifying as a doctor for those that already hold a degree. Some universities will accept any degree (in addition to having a suitable GAMSAT or MCAT result). Others require a science-based degree containing certain subjects.
If a four-year degree is not listed on a university’s WDOMS listing then it doesn’t have a graduate-entry medicine programme.
There are however, important features that graduate-entry programmes need to have. Firstly, they have to be accredited separately to the standard six-year straight from high-school programme. Secondly, the four-year route is a separately designed programme that acknowledges graduates need additional training in medical science theory. This is essential to ensure newly qualifying doctors possess the knowledge and skills to fulfil their career potential. This specifically designed curriculum is also important to ensure patient safety. Both of these factors are required for a programme to be considered a true graduate-entry degree.
The sure-fire way to determine if a programme is an accredited graduate-entry degree is to check the listing in the World Directory of Medical Schools. In this directory you can search each medical school in the world and the programmes they offer. By clicking on “Programme Details” you can see if a four-year programme is approved at the university you have searched for. You can do this for both of our partner graduate-entry programmes:
University of Nicosia in Cyprus
Poznan University of Medical Science in Poland
What Graduate-Entry Medicine Certainly Isn’t
Study a four-year medicine programme at Poznan University of Medical Sciences
Check the programme title, length and accreditation directly with the university and the relevant regulator. An offer to join a later year of a six-year degree is not necessarily a graduate-entry programme. Ask how any previous study will be assessed and whether the proposed route meets the registration requirements in your intended country of practice.
This route results in material critical to your future registration being missed. Licensing exams such as the USMLE and the upcoming MLA include content from the early parts of medical education. With this content being skipped you will be at serious risk of significantly underperforming on these essential licensing exams.
More importantly, patients depend on the depth of your knowledge to ensure your practice is safe and effective. Skipping elements of core theory by entering a higher year of a six-year programme will ensure gaps remain in your knowledge posing a direct risk to patient welfare.
If you are focused on the four-year pathway to a career in medicine then this route is there. The search to seek out these programmes should however be done with great care. Making a rushed or uniformed decision can result in significant career disadvantages. These can be avoided by making the right choices when starting to apply.
For more information refer to our dedicated GEM page.