Offer holders for Medicine

Receive your full offer letter including the following enclosed forms / information pdfs: 

- Health Assessment Form
- Immunisation Record Form
- Criminal Record Check information

Take time to read all of this information carefully, as well as the information in your offer letter about Covid-19 vaccinations.

Return your completed Health Assessment Form directly to Occupational Health
The deadline for Occupational Health to receive the Health Assessment Form is 18 March.

If you have only lived in the UK (not including Northern Ireland) for the whole of the last 5 years you will need a DBS check only. Please make your payment for the DBS check via the University’s online store.

• Once the payment has been processed and the Student Registry have entered your information onto the online portal, you will receive an email from Agenda Screening advising you how to complete your DBS check. Please act on the instructions in this email.

Online payment

If you have lived in Northern Ireland for six or more consecutive months in the last 5 years, it is necessary for you to obtain a Northern Ireland DBS check (which is different to the UK DBS check). Please make your payment for the DBS check via the University’s online store.  

• Please also complete the self-declaration form as soon as possible and email it to dbsstudents@admin.cam.ac.uk.

If you have not lived in the UK at all in the last five years you will not need a DBS check but you will be required to obtain an overseas check for each country that you have lived in for a period of six continuous months or more, and complete a self-declaration form. 

• If you already have your overseas check(s) please scan a copy of the document(s) to dbsstudents@admin.cam.ac.uk or send a scanned copy as soon as you receive it to the email address given. 
• Please also complete the self-declaration form as soon as possible and email it to dbsstudents@admin.cam.ac.uk.

If you have lived overseas and in the UK for a period of at least six continuous months in each in the last five years, you will be required to obtain an overseas check for each country that you have lived in for a period of six continuous months or more, a DBS check, and complete a Self-Declaration form. You will need to make a payment for the DBS check as soon as possible. 

• If you already have your overseas check(s) please scan a copy of the document(s) to dbsstudents@admin.cam.ac.uk or send a scanned copy as soon as you receive it to the email address given.
• Please complete the self-declaration form as soon as possible and email this to dbsstudents@admin.cam.ac.uk

Subscribing to the DBS Update Service:

The DBS Update Service is an optional online service which we recommend, where you can host the results of your Disclosure Certificate and the DBS will automatically keep your results updated. If you have a subscription, you will not need to apply for another DBS check as long as your existing certificate remains current. The Update Service costs £13.00 per year.

If you subscribe to the Update Service third parties can, with your permission, view the status of your check. If you maintain your subscription, this will be useful for potential employers in future. If you choose to subscribe to the Update Service, you must do so within 14 days of receiving your Disclosure Certificate. Third parties cannot run the Update Service without seeing your original certificate first

Optional subscription
(recommended)