The MBChB at UCT is a six-year medical degree offered by one of Africa's foremost health sciences faculties, with a globally recognised tradition of clinical training, biomedical research, and a deep commitment to health equity in South Africa's complex disease landscape. Students are immersed in clinical environments from early in the programme, training at hospitals including Groote Schuur — where the world's first human heart transplant was performed — as well as community health centres and informal settlement clinics across the Cape Metropole. UCT's Health Sciences faculty produces graduates equipped not only to practise medicine at the highest level, but to tackle the social determinants of health that drive South Africa's burden of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, non-communicable diseases, and trauma. After graduating, doctors complete two years of internship and one year of community service before registering with the HPCSA. Note: The APS shown is the NSC sub-minimum; UCT's full Faculty Points Score for Health Sciences includes National Benchmark Test results (FPS out of 900).
English Home Language or English First Additional Language: 65%
Mathematics: 70%
Physical Sciences: 70%
APS (sub-minimum): 450
