New age limit for Medical School
applicants
doing internships.
Posted 14 March 2005
The Trustees have specially extended the age limit by two years for MBCHB applicants who are doing their medical internships. The Trustees want to avoid successful medical school applicants having to postpone taking up the Scholarship - which has been happening when medical school applicants apply within the previous age limit, but then get permission to defer going up to Oxford so as to first complete their internships.
The new special age limit will enable medical school applicants to complete their medical internships first. They must however take up the Scholarship before completing their post-internship medical residency. The Trustees were unwilling to extend the age limit further to cover the 'house doctor' year as well.
So applicants doing their internships in medical school now benefit from an age limit extended by two years. If you are therefore registered for an MBCHB degree, you may apply in the second year of your internship, provided you are still younger than 27 on 1 October in the year you start at Oxford.