Essential preparations
These are essential things that you have to do or check before the start of the course:
Offer Letter
Check your individual offer letter for the conditions you must satisfy by the deadline of 31.08.2025.
DBS check
Complete an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check through Warwick and provide an original overseas police check from any countries where you have lived for six months or more in the past five years (if applicable). If this is the case for you, please see the link on the right, describing how current students acquired documents from abroad. For further details please visit: our DBS webpages. We will contact you with details of how to complete the DBS process once you have accepted your offer.
Occupational Health Declaration Form
Complete and return the Occupational Health Declaration Form to the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. The completed form should be returned by email to: occupationalhealth@uhcw.nhs.uk.
The information you disclose in this questionnaire will remain confidential to the Occupational Health Department and will be used only to assess your fitness for your proposed course. Where a significant health condition has been declared, you may be asked to attend an appointment at UHCW Occupational Health to assess any adjustments to support you during your medical training.
Please see more information about Occupational Health on the Clinical information page.
Health and Conduct Survey
A condition of your offer of a place on the MB ChB is that you must complete the Health and Conduct Survey by 31.05 2025. If your individual circumstances should change or you receive a new health diagnosis afterwards, please email healthandconduct@warwick.ac.uk to update us.
In addition, we encourage all students declaring any disability or learning difference to contact the University Disability Services in advance to discuss their support requirements to enable us to make reasonable adjustments for the duration of their studies. The University of Warwick and Wellbeing Support Services as a whole are committed to equality, diversity and to promoting an inclusive teaching and learning environment for all.
Vaccinations
As a healthcare student, you must comply with Department of Health guidelines on immunisations and screening required to protect you and your patents during the course of your work.You are required to have had all the national vaccination programme immunisations, for example tetanus, polio, MMR/Rubella, BCG, Diphtheria and Varicella (Chicken Pox). Your health clearance will be processed much more quickly if you are able to provide the relevant documentation at your first appointment.
In addition, all new health care workers (including students), must be tested for HIV, Hepatitis C and Hepatitis B carrier status before first involvement in exposure prone activities (EPP).You will need to provide photographic ID such as a driving licence or passport at the time of the blood test.
Your immunisation status will be reviewed by our Occupational Health Specialist from the information you provide in the Occupational Health Declaration Form.
For further details, please also see the Health Clearance for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV and Tuberculosis.
Covid vaccination remains the most effective way to protect yourself and your patients from Covid 19 and we strongly recommend that all students are fully vaccinated.
Enrolment
You will receive an email from the enrolment team 4-6 weeks before the start of the course. Find out more about the tasks you need to complete as part of enrolment on the Enrolment website.
Certificate of Student Status
You can request a Certificate of Student Status letter via the online form once you have enrolled on the course. Some of you may require this for as requested by your Bank or for Council Tax purposes etc.
