Students with a disability

There are two factors to bear in mind if you have a disability, and are considering studying medicine:

1. Your personal experience with disability can give you greater insight into the lives of many of your patients, and make you better equipped to assist them as a doctor. As a consequence, we welcome applications from disabled people.
   
   
2. Medical training covers every aspect of health care, and includes an arduous period as a house officer. If your disability is such as to make it impossible for you to practice, we would be unable to accept you onto the course.

As a consequence and to ensure that effective support can be provided, disabled applicants, applicants with serious health problems or applicants who know they are infected with Hep C or HIV should contact the Admissions Tutor for Undergraduate Medicine before applying. If you have not had time to do this you must disclose your health details on your UCAS form. Each application will be considered individually.

The Admissions Tutor will suggest supporting health documentation that might demonstrate your suitability, and assist your application. Where a prognosis is not clear a committee will be convened to assess the situation more fully, and to ensure that the University is able to support you and enable you to complete your studies successfully.

Contact Details:
Admissions Tutor for Undergraduate Medicine
Medical Admissions Office - The University of Sheffield
The Medical School
Beech Hill Road
Sheffield S10 2RX

Phone: 0114 271 3727
Fax: 0114 271 3960

email: medadmissions@sheffield.ac.uk