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Admission process for the Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
2020-2021 academic year 

The admission process for the Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine is oriented towards candidates who would like to study Medicine at UIC Barcelona during the 2020-2021 academic year. In order to start this process, candidates must meet the following requirements.

Pre-requisites for each access route

Upper secondary school students

They must have a minimum of the following average marks from the last year of education they have completed:

  • Science/healthcare branch: 7
  • Branch not related to healthcare: 8

 Higher level vocational training courses (CFGS) healthcare

  • Minimum average mark from their most recent year of study: 8 

Students who have started university studies:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine

-       1st-year Medicine students: must provide proof of a minimum mark of 7 from their second year of upper secondary education/Spanish baccalaureate and take the entrance exam.

-       2nd-year Medicine students: must provide proof of their mark from their academic record:

  • Students with an average mark of 8 or higher are exempt from taking the entrance exam, but must complete a personal interview.
  • Students with a mark between 7 and 7.99 must take the entrance exam.

-Medicine students in 3rd year or higher: must provide proof of an average mark of 8 from their academic record, are exempt from taking the entrance exam, but must complete a personal interview.

 
In other degrees other than Medicine: Students who have started university studies in a bachelor’s degree other than Medicine must provide proof of their mark from their most recent year of education:

  • Healthcare branch: 7 
  • Branch not related to healthcare: 8  

Students who have completed a university degree:

They must justify an average of 7 on their academic record. They will have to take entrance examinations. 

International baccalaureate students or students from outside Spain

Students from outside Spain must take the entrance exam and compete with the other Spanish students. To be eligible to take the entrance exams, students must have a minimum mark of 7 out of 10 in their last complete year of education (scientific/technological baccalaureate/upper secondary education).

General Requirements

It is essential to have either a B2 or a higher level of English.  If this level is accredited in the form of an official certificate the student will be exempt from taking the English test on the day of the entrance exam.

If you meet the requirements you must take the following steps to sign up for the admission process:

Fill in the online application (www.uic.es/solicitud)

- Once the application has been filled in, the student will receive an e-mail containing the documentation required to take the entrance exam

-When the paperwork is processes you will receive an email confirming the exam date. 

Deadline for submission of documentation is 20 April (doc.medicina@uic.es).

Entrance examinations

There is one single date for the entrance exams for medicine:   Saturday 9 May 2020 (will be done online)

The examinations will take place on the Sant Cugat Campus (Josep Trueta, s/n, Sant Cugat) at 9 in the morning and last approximately four hours.

The entrance exam will be in Spanish.

Exam content 

  1. Specific biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics knowledge test (1st-year upper-secondary school level) *
  2. Reasoning test.
  3. Psychotechnic test:
  4. Resolution of and commentary on a specific case
  5. * English level test (if you don’t have a B2 level certificate)

Syllabus Admission Tests for the Degree in Medicine

Exam results

An e-mail will be sent to the candidates approximately fifteen working days after taking the entrance exams, informing them of the results. The results will be as follows:

  • Admitted: The candidate has been admitted to the Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine. Definitive result.
  • Waiting list: The candidate has been placed on a waiting list. This means that, in the ranking of marks, the candidate is not among the students who have been accepted, but may wait to see if any vacancies open up in July or September.
  • Not admitted: This means that the candidate has been excluded from the admission process for the Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine.

Candidates who have been admitted will receive an official acceptance letter via e-mail, which will outline the steps they need to take to reserve their place and complete enrolment.

Enrolment for new students will take place from June onwards, once the results of the national university entrance examinations have been announced.

If you are admitted into the university, in order to access the Spanish university system, you will also have to apply for UNED credentials. Students from outside the European Union will have to apply for their qualification(s) to be officially recognised.

Credit recognition 

Student record transfer (medical students from other institutions) 

Accepting student record transfers is subject to the places that are available after the current academic year has closed. All of the studies to be recognised will be undertaken during the academic year when admission occurs.

Candidates will be asked to complete a personal interview, in which they will be informed of the results of the evaluation, and each case will be considered on an individual basis. The interview dates for academic record transfers for the 2020-2021 academic year are:

- 30 March (for students who submit their documentation before 6 March)

- 22 June (for students who submit their documentation before 5 June) 

Credit recognition (students who are admitted after the entrance exams)

A study will be undertaken in each case by the Committee for Transfers and Credit Recognition, once each student has been admitted.      

Credit recognition studies will only be undertaken the year the student is admitted to the university. 

Students who want to apply for one, must hand in the required documentation along with the documents for the entrance examination. The deadline to apply for validation is 14 June.

Admission process for two or more degree programmes 

Candidates who would like to obtain other qualifications at UIC Barcelona should fill in an online application for each of the degree programmes they have chosen at www.uic.es/solicitudand provide the documentation each degree programme requires*.

* The exam fee will only be charged once.

If you plan on applying for two degree programmes, you must inform the Information and Admissions Service (935 042 000).

You will need to take the entrance exams for each of the degree programmes you wish to take. 

Contact details

Ana Catena
acatena@uic.es
Information and Admissions Service: 935 042 000

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