Covid 19 vaccine

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Hi , would anyone know if you need to have Covid 19 vaccination to study medicine?
I am applying to study medicine 2025 and some school websites mentioning the Covid 19 vaccine even though there is no clear indication that it’s mandatory.
I am applying to Imperial, Kings , Ucl and Nottingham.
Would anyone know who applied to those universities or anywhere else if you need to be vaccinated.
Thank you

Reply 1

artful_lounger

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Well you'll certainly need other vaccines for medical school/to work as a doctor (hep B, MMR etc) so can't imagine it's a great issue to get one more if needed.

Not sure where you'd get it at this point if required?

Reply 2

Daivy

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Thank you for your reply . I have all the regular childhood vaccinations and have no issue to get the hepatitis b one. Just as there are lots of safety issues that now the doctors themselves are bringing out, I would prefer to not have the covid 19 vaccine at this moment as it will make no difference about transmitting the virus and I know people who had 3 shots and got sicker than someone who has not had the vaccine.
I only asked this question as some school mention this on their website as I was not sure is this information is old or it’s still relevant at the moment .

Reply 3

morgij21

Original post by Daivy

Thank you for your reply . I have all the regular childhood vaccinations and have no issue to get the hepatitis b one. Just as there are lots of safety issues that now the doctors themselves are bringing out, I would prefer to not have the covid 19 vaccine at this moment as it will make no difference about transmitting the virus and I know people who had 3 shots and got sicker than someone who has not had the vaccine.
I only asked this question as some school mention this on their website as I was not sure is this information is old or it’s still relevant at the moment .

Have you found any recent information on this? I am wondering the same for nursing

Reply 4

Daivy

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Original post by morgij21

Have you found any recent information on this? I am wondering the same for nursing

Hi , end up calling the admissions teams at some of the universities I am planning to apply. At the UCL they say you don’t need the covid vaccine, at the Imperial you don’t need it as a student but some hospitals might require you to have it once you are actually start to work as a doctor and at the Kings college they say that they require students to have it but if you don’t you need to have a good explanation why you don’t have it. Maybe you should call the admissions teams on the universities you are planning to apply as I feel the websites about this particular issue are not updated.
Also I think as there is so many issues with this vaccine and it has caused lots of complications in younger people I don’t think they will make it mandatory as people are so much more now educated about it. Also as it doesn’t stop the spreading of the virus or stop you from getting severely sick . Lucky lots of doctors are now brining up the issues with this particular vaccine so hopefully they will not force this on anyone again.
Hope this was helpful

Reply 5

Voevodina

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I know some other countries are lenient if it was dentistry🇵🇭, podiatry(Latin America), or veterinary medicine(NCSU in 🇺🇸) program that you are applying for. Many socialist countries too are lenient. In your situation, probably Oceania University of Medicine would accept you since in their clinical years they let you select a doctor for each specialty who will supervise your rotation, you should pray that your selected doctor won't mind about your situation. Anyways, since you don't like the cov jab then you also have a reason to not like other jabs because you don't know if the plasma donor is from a cov jabbed person since every vax contains plasma from recently healed people who donated it but you won't know if the donor is someone who also got cov jabbed too for vials manufactured after post-pandemic time.

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