Please note the course details apply to 2025 entry. Details for 2026 entry for our undergraduate courses will be published from September 2025.
Medicine Maxfax Entry Programme MBBS
UCAS code: A104
Key information
Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time
Duration:
Four years
Application status:
Closed
Start date:
September 2025
Application deadline:
29 January 2025
Our Medicine Maxfax Entry Programme MBBS is a four-year medical degree designed specifically for qualified dentists who are registered with the UK General Dental Council and who wish to pursue a career in oral and maxillofacial surgery.
Key benefits
- Integrated medical science with clinical teaching; and focus on learning in close contact with patients.
- Partner hospitals include Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals – three of the most renowned and busiest teaching hospitals in London.
- Students benefit from clinical placements at district general hospitals located across the South of England and over 350 general practices.
- Learn from some of the world’s most influential clinicians and scientists, who are global leaders in life sciences and medical research.
- A multi-faculty university giving you access to a breadth of non-core subjects including humanities and social sciences.
- Twinned with leading medical schools around the world, providing opportunities for clinical exchanges during your elective module.
- Accredited by the General Medical Council (GMC), this Primary Medical Qualification entitles the holder to apply to the GMC for registration to practise medicine in the UK.
The MBBS degree at King’s aims to train students to become: • critical scientific thinkers • collaborative leaders and innovators • outstanding patient-centred clinicians • excellent team-players • educators and life-long learners • resilient and adaptable professionals. The MBBS curriculum is divided into three ‘Stages’. Although we offer four entry routes into Medicine, all our students follow the same core MBBS curriculum. As a student on the Maxfax Entry Programme you will not take Stage 1, and you will join the other medical students at Stage 2. Stage 2 brings together science and clinical practice in blocks organised around the human life-cycle and common pathological processes. It focuses on the care of patients with common conditions in a range of clinical settings. You will also follow patients for prolonged periods of time to learn how to deliver whole-person care. This stage is underpinned by study in biomedical and population sciences. Stage 3 is oriented towards future practice and includes the opportunity to undertake elective study abroad. You will also conduct quality improvement projects and develop skills to transform patient and population health at home and abroad. Inter-professional training and increasingly realistic simulation are important parts of the curriculum.
Base campuses
Guy’s Campus
The Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, and the Institute of Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience are based at the riverside Guy's Campus, next to the Shard.
Denmark Hill Campus
Home to the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.
Please note that locations are determined by where each module is taught and may vary depending on the modules you study.
Special features
Optional study abroad
On this programme, you will have the opportunity to apply to study abroad, supported by the Study Abroad Tutor in your department and King’s Global Mobility Office. Together with partner organisations around the world, you will be supported in navigating your international, educational journey, developing new skills and competences and learning to apply different perspectives to your chosen discipline.
Course accreditation
General Medical Council (GMC)
Regulating bodies
King's is regulated by the Office for Students
Entry requirements:
Applicants must be qualified dentists registered with the UK General Dental Council wishing to pursue a career in oral and maxillofacial surgery.
The UCAT is not required for this particular programme.
Selection process:
Applicants are selected for interview based on their personal statement, experience to date, and qualifications already achieved.
Interviews are held with a standard panel of dental and/or medical staff. Interviews will typically take place between February and April in the year that you apply, and you can expect to hear from us during this time on whether or you have been shortlisted for interview.
We operate a “fit-to-sit” policy for interviews, therefore, we are unable to take into account mitigating circumstances for the interview performance. If there are any issues within the interview which you consider affected your performance, you should ensure these are raised with the Admissions team.
Each year we are usually able to offer two places to suitably qualified applicants post-interview.
Overseas applicants:
We are unfortunately unable to consider applicants with an Overseas fee status for this programme. UKCISA has a number of resources to advise you of which fee status category you may fall into dependent on your circumstances, so we would recommend reviewing these prior to making an application.
Deferrals:
Please note that we do not accept deferred entry applications for this programme and we are unable to defer any applicants to the following academic year.
Programme start date:
The MaxFax programme starts earlier than other degree programmes. Enrolment is normally in the middle of August.
Teaching methods - what to expect
Lectures
Tutorials
Seminars
Directed self-study
We will provide you with high-level teaching from experts, which you will put into practice on your placements. The breakdown of teaching methods is listed below.
| Stage and year |
Lectures, seminars and similar |
Placement | Self-study time |
| Stage 2, year 1 | 40% | 40% | 20% |
| Stage 2, year 2 | 20% | 60% | 20% |
| Stage 3 (Years 3 and 4) | 15% including small group and case-based teaching in clinical | 75% | 10% |
We will use a delivery method that will ensure students have a rich, exciting experience from the start. Face to face teaching will be complemented and supported with innovative technology so that students also experience elements of digital learning and assessment.
You will learn in a wide variety of hospital and community care settings. Students undertake placements at general practices and district general hospitals located in south London and south east England, currently they are mostly in Kent and Sussex. Placements outside of London offer a different and rich perspective on clinical learning, complementing the experiences gained in central London hospitals.
Unless there are exceptional circumstances, all students will experience placements at London and peripheral sites during their programme.
Learning outcomes
Outcome of the course
On successful completion of the course, you will receive your MBBS degree, which is a primary medical qualification (PMQ). Holding a PMQ entitles you to apply for provisional registration with the General Medical Council (GMC), subject only to its acceptance that there are no Fitness to Practice concerns. Provisional registration is time limited to a maximum of three years and 30 days (1125 days in total). After this time period your provisional registration will normally expire.
Provisionally registered doctors can only practise in approved Foundation Year 1 posts: the law does not allow provisionally registered doctors to undertake any other type of work. To obtain a Foundation Year 1 post you will need to apply during the final year of your undergraduate course through the UK Foundation Programme Office selection scheme, which allocates these posts to graduates on a competitive basis. Generally, all suitably qualified UK graduates are allocated a place on Foundation Year 1.
On successful completion of Foundation Year 1, you will be eligible to apply for full registration with the GMC. You need full registration with a licence to practise for unsupervised medical practice in the NHS or private practice in the UK.
Although this information is currently correct, you should be aware that regulations in this area may change from time to time.
Assessment
- Formative Assessment
- Summative Assessment
Assessment is split between that which is formative (where the primary role is to demonstrate competence against course standards and learning outcomes) and summative (where the primary role is to demonstrate competence to faculty, this does contribute towards the overall module/degree score). Formative assessment occurs through the years.
Summative assessment includes:
- portfolio-based summative assessment continues throughout the course in preparation for professional life
- progress (written) tests in Stage 2 and Stage 3
- OSCEs (formative mid-stage, summative end- of-stage) in Stages 2 and 3
- Project assessment
There are also two external assessments in Stage 3, that are necessary to support your Foundation Year 1 training but are not essential to pass these in order to graduate from the MBBS course.
The GMC has decided to introduce a Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA) for students graduating in 2024/25 onwards to demonstrate that those who obtain registration with a licence to practise medicine in the UK meet a common threshold for safe practice. Applicants should be aware that to obtain registration with a licence to practise, medical students will need to pass both parts of the MLA, pass university finals and demonstrate their fitness to practise.
Course Accreditation
Accredited by the General Medical Council (GMC), this Primary Medical Qualification entitles the holder to apply to the GMC for registration to practise medicine in the UK.
Regulating Body
King’s College London is regulated by the Office for Students.
The study time and assessment methods detailed above are typical and give you a good indication of what to expect. However, they are subject to change.
Structure
You do not undertake Stage 1 of the five/six Year MBBS course. Instead you will have a four- week mandatory introductory module ‘Introduction to Clinical Skills’ immediately before you start Stage 2, which includes elements of the Introduction to Values Based Clinical Practice module from Stage 1.
Required modules
The following Stage 2 modules are studied in years 1 & 2. You are required to take:
Introduction to Clinical Skills (15 credits). Please note – this module runs in September of the first year of the programme and involves face to face study.
From Science to Clinical Practice 1 (105 credits)
From Science to Clinical Practice 2 (120 credits)
Project (Doctor as Teacher) (15 credits)
Project (Introduction to Clinical Research) (15 credits)
The following required Stage 2 modules involve the opportunity to choose which area is studied in further detail:
The Student Selected Component (SSC) is a required module within which you undertake projects or short courses in medical, scientific and non-medical subjects that you choose according to personal interest. (15 credits)
Scholarly Project: You will undertake a scholarly project in an area of interest selected from across the multi-faculty university. (30 credits)
Optional modules
There are no optional modules for this year.
King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.
Please note that modules with a practical component will be capped due to educational requirements, which may mean that we cannot guarantee a place to all students who elect to study this module.
Employability
Our course is accredited by the General Medical Council (GMC), this Primary Medical Qualification entitles the holder to apply to the GMC for registration to practise medicine in the UK.
Tuition Fees
Full time tuition fees UK:
The UK tuition fee for the 2025-26 academic year is currently £9,535 per year. This is based on the UK Government's cap.
Additional Costs
In addition to your tuition costs, you can also expect to pay for:
- Books if you choose to buy your own copies
- Clothing for optional course related events and competitions
- Library fees and fines
- Personal photocopies
- Printing course handouts
- Society membership fees
- Stationery
- Graduation costs
- Travel costs for travel around London and between campuses
If you choose the study abroad option with one of King’s partner universities, you will not be charged tuition fees by the host university (although some partners do charge a small administration fee for applying). Please see the Study Abroad webpages for details of the relevant partner universities and information about tuition fees: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/abroad/discover/money/tuition-fees You should also budget to pay for the associated subsistence costs, such as travel, visas, accommodation and food as well as any vaccination/immunisations required by the country to which you are travelling. The following gives you an indication of additional costs associated with the Medicine course. These costs are not included in your tuition fees. Clothing: Students will need to purchase a white coat for laboratory work from any source. Cost at August 2023: £14.00. Course-related conferences: Conferences are optional. If you attend a conference you will need to pay for all costs associated e.g. accommodation, travel, food & beverages and appropriate clothing. If the conference includes travel abroad, you will need to budget for travel insurance and, if necessary, passport renewal and visas. Disclosure and Barring certificates/clearance: Students have to pay for an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance check. This is payable as part of course registration (cost at July 2023 : £38). Electives: Students have to pay for any accommodation required as part of your Elective. You will need to pay for travel insurance and medical insurance if you choose to undertake your Elective outside of the UK and if necessary, passport renewal and visas. Equipment: Approved calculators. Across all King’s campuses computer workstations are available. Students may wish to buy their own desktop/laptop/tablet computer to support their studies (optional). For medical equipment and materials for Stage 2 onwards, you will need to purchase a stethoscope, any make/model and can be purchased from any source. Students will need to buy a fob watch with a second hand that you can pin to your clothing or put in your pocket, as you are not permitted to wear wrist watches in clinical areas. No specific make or model is required. Health checks/immunisations/vaccinations: Students pay for any immunisation/vaccination costs required to ensure you have a complete immunisation/vaccination history prior to commencing the course. Further information on required immunisations/vaccinations is provided to those applicants made an academic offer of study. You will need to pay for any immunisation/vaccination costs associated with overseas travel if you chose to undertake your Elective outside of the UK. Insurance: Students need to pay for insurance and medical insurance if you choose to undertake your Elective outside of the UK. Travel: Students need to pay for travel to and from clinical placements.
Funding
To find out more about bursaries, scholarships, grants, tuition fees, living expenses, student loans, and other financial help available at King's please visit the Fees and Funding section.
The MBBS degree at King’s aims to train students to become: • critical scientific thinkers • collaborative leaders and innovators • outstanding patient-centred clinicians • excellent team-players • educators and life-long learners • resilient and adaptable professionals. The MBBS curriculum is divided into three ‘Stages’. Although we offer four entry routes into Medicine, all our students follow the same core MBBS curriculum. As a student on the Maxfax Entry Programme you will not take Stage 1, and you will join the other medical students at Stage 2. Stage 2 brings together science and clinical practice in blocks organised around the human life-cycle and common pathological processes. It focuses on the care of patients with common conditions in a range of clinical settings. You will also follow patients for prolonged periods of time to learn how to deliver whole-person care. This stage is underpinned by study in biomedical and population sciences. Stage 3 is oriented towards future practice and includes the opportunity to undertake elective study abroad. You will also conduct quality improvement projects and develop skills to transform patient and population health at home and abroad. Inter-professional training and increasingly realistic simulation are important parts of the curriculum.
Base campuses
Guy’s Campus
The Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, and the Institute of Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience are based at the riverside Guy's Campus, next to the Shard.
Denmark Hill Campus
Home to the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.
Please note that locations are determined by where each module is taught and may vary depending on the modules you study.
Special features
Optional study abroad
On this programme, you will have the opportunity to apply to study abroad, supported by the Study Abroad Tutor in your department and King’s Global Mobility Office. Together with partner organisations around the world, you will be supported in navigating your international, educational journey, developing new skills and competences and learning to apply different perspectives to your chosen discipline.
Course accreditation
General Medical Council (GMC)
Regulating bodies
King's is regulated by the Office for Students
Entry requirements:
Applicants must be qualified dentists registered with the UK General Dental Council wishing to pursue a career in oral and maxillofacial surgery.
The UCAT is not required for this particular programme.
Selection process:
Applicants are selected for interview based on their personal statement, experience to date, and qualifications already achieved.
Interviews are held with a standard panel of dental and/or medical staff. Interviews will typically take place between February and April in the year that you apply, and you can expect to hear from us during this time on whether or you have been shortlisted for interview.
We operate a “fit-to-sit” policy for interviews, therefore, we are unable to take into account mitigating circumstances for the interview performance. If there are any issues within the interview which you consider affected your performance, you should ensure these are raised with the Admissions team.
Each year we are usually able to offer two places to suitably qualified applicants post-interview.
Overseas applicants:
We are unfortunately unable to consider applicants with an Overseas fee status for this programme. UKCISA has a number of resources to advise you of which fee status category you may fall into dependent on your circumstances, so we would recommend reviewing these prior to making an application.
Deferrals:
Please note that we do not accept deferred entry applications for this programme and we are unable to defer any applicants to the following academic year.
Programme start date:
The MaxFax programme starts earlier than other degree programmes. Enrolment is normally in the middle of August.
Teaching methods - what to expect
Lectures
Tutorials
Seminars
Directed self-study
We will provide you with high-level teaching from experts, which you will put into practice on your placements. The breakdown of teaching methods is listed below.
| Stage and year |
Lectures, seminars and similar |
Placement | Self-study time |
| Stage 2, year 1 | 40% | 40% | 20% |
| Stage 2, year 2 | 20% | 60% | 20% |
| Stage 3 (Years 3 and 4) | 15% including small group and case-based teaching in clinical | 75% | 10% |
We will use a delivery method that will ensure students have a rich, exciting experience from the start. Face to face teaching will be complemented and supported with innovative technology so that students also experience elements of digital learning and assessment.
You will learn in a wide variety of hospital and community care settings. Students undertake placements at general practices and district general hospitals located in south London and south east England, currently they are mostly in Kent and Sussex. Placements outside of London offer a different and rich perspective on clinical learning, complementing the experiences gained in central London hospitals.
Unless there are exceptional circumstances, all students will experience placements at London and peripheral sites during their programme.
Learning outcomes
Outcome of the course
On successful completion of the course, you will receive your MBBS degree, which is a primary medical qualification (PMQ). Holding a PMQ entitles you to apply for provisional registration with the General Medical Council (GMC), subject only to its acceptance that there are no Fitness to Practice concerns. Provisional registration is time limited to a maximum of three years and 30 days (1125 days in total). After this time period your provisional registration will normally expire.
Provisionally registered doctors can only practise in approved Foundation Year 1 posts: the law does not allow provisionally registered doctors to undertake any other type of work. To obtain a Foundation Year 1 post you will need to apply during the final year of your undergraduate course through the UK Foundation Programme Office selection scheme, which allocates these posts to graduates on a competitive basis. Generally, all suitably qualified UK graduates are allocated a place on Foundation Year 1.
On successful completion of Foundation Year 1, you will be eligible to apply for full registration with the GMC. You need full registration with a licence to practise for unsupervised medical practice in the NHS or private practice in the UK.
Although this information is currently correct, you should be aware that regulations in this area may change from time to time.
Assessment
- Formative Assessment
- Summative Assessment
Assessment is split between that which is formative (where the primary role is to demonstrate competence against course standards and learning outcomes) and summative (where the primary role is to demonstrate competence to faculty, this does contribute towards the overall module/degree score). Formative assessment occurs through the years.
Summative assessment includes:
- portfolio-based summative assessment continues throughout the course in preparation for professional life
- progress (written) tests in Stage 2 and Stage 3
- OSCEs (formative mid-stage, summative end- of-stage) in Stages 2 and 3
- Project assessment
There are also two external assessments in Stage 3, that are necessary to support your Foundation Year 1 training but are not essential to pass these in order to graduate from the MBBS course.
The GMC has decided to introduce a Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA) for students graduating in 2024/25 onwards to demonstrate that those who obtain registration with a licence to practise medicine in the UK meet a common threshold for safe practice. Applicants should be aware that to obtain registration with a licence to practise, medical students will need to pass both parts of the MLA, pass university finals and demonstrate their fitness to practise.
Course Accreditation
Accredited by the General Medical Council (GMC), this Primary Medical Qualification entitles the holder to apply to the GMC for registration to practise medicine in the UK.
Regulating Body
King’s College London is regulated by the Office for Students.
The study time and assessment methods detailed above are typical and give you a good indication of what to expect. However, they are subject to change.
Structure
You do not undertake Stage 1 of the five/six Year MBBS course. Instead you will have a four- week mandatory introductory module ‘Introduction to Clinical Skills’ immediately before you start Stage 2, which includes elements of the Introduction to Values Based Clinical Practice module from Stage 1.
Required modules
The following Stage 2 modules are studied in years 1 & 2. You are required to take:
Introduction to Clinical Skills (15 credits). Please note – this module runs in September of the first year of the programme and involves face to face study.
From Science to Clinical Practice 1 (105 credits)
From Science to Clinical Practice 2 (120 credits)
Project (Doctor as Teacher) (15 credits)
Project (Introduction to Clinical Research) (15 credits)
The following required Stage 2 modules involve the opportunity to choose which area is studied in further detail:
The Student Selected Component (SSC) is a required module within which you undertake projects or short courses in medical, scientific and non-medical subjects that you choose according to personal interest. (15 credits)
Scholarly Project: You will undertake a scholarly project in an area of interest selected from across the multi-faculty university. (30 credits)
Optional modules
There are no optional modules for this year.
King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.
Please note that modules with a practical component will be capped due to educational requirements, which may mean that we cannot guarantee a place to all students who elect to study this module.
Employability
Our course is accredited by the General Medical Council (GMC), this Primary Medical Qualification entitles the holder to apply to the GMC for registration to practise medicine in the UK.
Tuition Fees
Full time tuition fees UK:
The UK tuition fee for the 2025-26 academic year is currently £9,535 per year. This is based on the UK Government's cap.
Additional Costs
In addition to your tuition costs, you can also expect to pay for:
- Books if you choose to buy your own copies
- Clothing for optional course related events and competitions
- Library fees and fines
- Personal photocopies
- Printing course handouts
- Society membership fees
- Stationery
- Graduation costs
- Travel costs for travel around London and between campuses
If you choose the study abroad option with one of King’s partner universities, you will not be charged tuition fees by the host university (although some partners do charge a small administration fee for applying). Please see the Study Abroad webpages for details of the relevant partner universities and information about tuition fees: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/abroad/discover/money/tuition-fees You should also budget to pay for the associated subsistence costs, such as travel, visas, accommodation and food as well as any vaccination/immunisations required by the country to which you are travelling. The following gives you an indication of additional costs associated with the Medicine course. These costs are not included in your tuition fees. Clothing: Students will need to purchase a white coat for laboratory work from any source. Cost at August 2023: £14.00. Course-related conferences: Conferences are optional. If you attend a conference you will need to pay for all costs associated e.g. accommodation, travel, food & beverages and appropriate clothing. If the conference includes travel abroad, you will need to budget for travel insurance and, if necessary, passport renewal and visas. Disclosure and Barring certificates/clearance: Students have to pay for an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance check. This is payable as part of course registration (cost at July 2023 : £38). Electives: Students have to pay for any accommodation required as part of your Elective. You will need to pay for travel insurance and medical insurance if you choose to undertake your Elective outside of the UK and if necessary, passport renewal and visas. Equipment: Approved calculators. Across all King’s campuses computer workstations are available. Students may wish to buy their own desktop/laptop/tablet computer to support their studies (optional). For medical equipment and materials for Stage 2 onwards, you will need to purchase a stethoscope, any make/model and can be purchased from any source. Students will need to buy a fob watch with a second hand that you can pin to your clothing or put in your pocket, as you are not permitted to wear wrist watches in clinical areas. No specific make or model is required. Health checks/immunisations/vaccinations: Students pay for any immunisation/vaccination costs required to ensure you have a complete immunisation/vaccination history prior to commencing the course. Further information on required immunisations/vaccinations is provided to those applicants made an academic offer of study. You will need to pay for any immunisation/vaccination costs associated with overseas travel if you chose to undertake your Elective outside of the UK. Insurance: Students need to pay for insurance and medical insurance if you choose to undertake your Elective outside of the UK. Travel: Students need to pay for travel to and from clinical placements.
Funding
To find out more about bursaries, scholarships, grants, tuition fees, living expenses, student loans, and other financial help available at King's please visit the Fees and Funding section.
Key information
Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time
Duration:
Four years
Application status:
Closed
Start date:
September 2025
Application deadline:
29 January 2025
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