Medicine (five year/six year course, HPAT required)

Points history

This course has an extra assessment (test, interview, portfolio or audition), so the points above are combined scores rather than Leaving Cert points alone.

Source: official CAO points charts (cao.ie). A guide to previous years only.

What this course is like

Studying medicine means developing a thorough understanding of the human body, disease, diagnosis, and treatment across a five- to six-year undergraduate programme. You will cover the biological and clinical sciences in your early years before moving into hospital-based clinical placements, where you rotate through specialties such as surgery, general practice, paediatrics, psychiatry, and obstetrics. Lectures, probl…

Careers this leads to