Gateways to the Professions

7. Applying for medical school

7.1 Encouraging disabled people to apply for medicine

It is unlawful to discriminate against a disabled person because of their disability:

  • in the arrangements made for determining admissions
  • in the terms of the offer to admit the disabled person
  • by refusing or deliberately omitting to accept an application for admission.

Where applications are usually made by application form, it is likely to be a reasonable adjustment to provide application documentation in accessible formats. If the format is electronic, it should be accessible to a range of screen readers and assistive software.