Students must fulfil a number of specific programme requirements in addition to meeting academic criteria for admission.
These are as follows:
Please be informed, Programme Requirements are compulsory, any student not compliant with Programme Requirements Health screening and Garda vetting will not be permitted to attend clinical sites and therefore will not be able to complete the programme.
All Medicine (Undergraduate entry, Graduate entry, RUMC) and Radiography (Undergraduate entry and Graduate Entry) students are required to complete Garda Vetting and police background checks in order to ensure that they pose no risk to patients, their colleagues or the School.
Students must complete a form of background check with the Garda Central Vetting Unit (GCVU). UCD Admissions provides incoming students with a GCVU form following admission to any of Medicine and Radiography programmes.
Registry and Admissions liaise with the School in order to ensure all students comply with this process, and once the forms are completed by students, UCD send them to the GCVU who then return information regarding the results to the School. Students should familiarise themselves with the Garda Vetting Requirement.
Students from abroad, or those who have resided outside of Ireland for six months or longer since turning 18, will be required to submit Police Certificates from every country other than Ireland they have resided in since the age of 18. We would recommend that students begin obtaining these documents soon after accepting admission to one of our programmes. If you are unsure of how to obtain these documents from a particular country, please contact the Student Vetting team via email on studentvetting@ucd.ie with the names of the countries for which you require details.
Some students may need to obtain an affidavit if their required Police Certificates have not been obtained by the time they commence hospital or GP Visits. Students who are required to do this will need to make arrangements for an affidavit with a solicitor, and will have to do so at their own cost. As a result of this, we strongly advise students to complete & obtain all documents relating to Garda Vetting and Police Certificates.
The School, its staff and its students have a collective responsibility to protect patients from exposure to infection. Equally, students must ensure that they are immunised against diseases such as Hepatitis B, Tuberculosis and common viral infections.
In order to facilitate our Health Screening requirements, UCD School of Medicine has an agreement with the Student Health Service to screen and vaccinate students. All screening follows national guidelines and protocols agreed with UCD School of Medicine.
A fee of approximately €295, payable at registration, is charged to all students upon entering the Medicine & Radiography programmes in order to cover costs associated with the Student Health Service screening arrangements. Prior to admission to the School of Medicine Medicine & Radiography students must satisfy the School that:
All students entering this programme must
UCD Student Health Service are reviewing the process for health screening for Autumn 2021 (updated April 2021)
For the most up-to-date information on requirements for Health Screening, incoming students should refer to the UCD Student Health Services website
Covid-19 vaccination
Covid vaccination is not currently a compulsory part of the UCD Infectious Disease Policy for healthcare student screening programme. However, this is currently under review. As a temporary measure, if you have received Covid-19 vaccination please bring along your records to your health screening appointment and we will record the details in your chart.
During their education at University College Dublin, students will come in contact with real patients, their stories and personal information and data. Students must understand that NO information relating to patients can be disclosed in any format or via any medium including verbal, written or electronic/ online.
In addition, information pertaining to an individual’s health and health care is considered individually identifiable health information, subject to the laws of data protection, and sharing or disclosure of such information is an offence.
Medicine students must be familiar with the Guide to Ethical Conduct and Behaviour published by the Irish Medical Council and agree to uphold the Council’s standards of behaviour for medical students. This Guide can be downloaded from the Irish Medical Council website.
To participate in clinical education, medical students must agree to adhere to the prevailing requirements articulated by the School and its clinical training partners.
These include, but are not limited to:
1. Adherence to the School’s dress code for patient interactions, including all specific requirements for infection prevention and control (IPC)
2. Adherence to the School’s requirements and compliance with its systems for the prevention and control of infection, including that they