Medicine & Dentistry Scholarship Programme 2024/25

Medicine & Dentistry Scholarships UK

As part of our efforts to make medical and dental school application support more accessible, MedicHut offers an annual scholarship programme to allow applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds full access to medicine and dentistry application support. Please note that the scholarship does not cover tuition fees.

Our programme has been running since 2020 and has previously been open to applicants from BAME backgrounds only. In 2024, we have decided to open this up to all applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds, although we suspect that the majority of applicants will be from minority ethnic backgrounds.

There is no set criteria for applying, but some of the factors below may result in applicants being disadvantaged in their medical or dental school applications:

• Low-income backgrounds, thus less opportunities for higher education.
• Underfunded schools leading to reduced opportunities to meet the grade requirements and a lack of support with medical/dental school applications.
• First generation in family to apply for university, thus increased difficulties in the application process as compared to applicants with larger support groups.
• Lack of funding for courses and resources designed to help get into medical and dental school.
• Reduced awareness of the medical and dental school application process.
• Racism embedded in society and in the NHS in particular. This can discourage students from applying, and can also lead to lower acceptance rates of qualified individuals.