Apply using the Applicant Portal
The Apply Now button on the right will take you to the Applicant Portal. There, you can create and submit your application and supporting documents, and you can also request your references.
An application is only complete when:
- you have submitted your application and supporting documents via the Applicant Portal
- you have paid the application fee if applicable. For further information on application fees, and which courses require an application fee, see here.
- your referees have provided their references.
If you wish to apply for funding, please ensure that you apply by the relevant funding date for entry the following academic year. The funding deadlines are listed in the sidebar on the right.
Offers made of places on this course are conditional on clearing any security checks the University deems necessary. Security checks are routinely required for all individuals involved in research activities that include working with sensitive information; working with children and vulnerable adults; working with live animals or with tissues supplied from live animals or working in an environment in which such work is pursued by others; working with dangerous pathogens or in a category 3 containment laboratory; or working with some other sensitive technologies. Where necessary the University will ensure that applicants are not disproportionately impacted by the requirement for any security checks by allowing new students to take up places and start appropriate areas of their work prior to a check in other areas being completed.
Selection Process
Applicants should expect to hear whether they have been successful within six weeks following the submission of their completed application and required supporting documents.
Things You'll Need
You should start preparing the things that you'll need when you apply. These will be mandatory, unless specifically flagged as optional.
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Two referees willing to give you a reference
Either academic or professional – please see our References guidance for more information about which type you need. Your referees will need to have submitted their reference by the course deadline. - Transcript
- CV/resume
- Evidence of competence in English
If required - please see our Competence in English guidance for more information. - Core - Research Proposal (document upload) (mandatory)
- Core - Statement of Interest (2500 characters) (mandatory)
- Medical Science - Clinician
- Core - Multiple Proposed Supervisors (200 characters) (mandatory)
Applications with no named Supervisor will not be accepted. Therefore, we strongly recommend getting in touch with a Supervisor before applying. For more information on finding a Supervisor, please see below. - School of Clinical Medicine - Widening Participation Questionnaire
Applicants to this course are being asked to complete an additional form to provide contextual information about their previous study. Find out more about our use of contextual information here: https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/apply/how/contextual-data
Gates Cambridge Scholarships
If you wish to be considered for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship you will also need to provide the following:
See Gates Cambridge for more information.
How to Find a Supervisor
If you are contemplating an MPhil in Medical Science (Psychiatry), it is important to identify a researcher who is working in an area of research of mutual interest and willing to be a supervisor. We, therefore, encourage you to find out about the research groups within the department by looking at our website - Find a Supervisor | Psychiatry and other background reading. You should then contact potential supervisors to find out about the possibility of working with them or someone in their group. Applications for an MPhil in the Department of Psychiatry will not be accepted without a named supervisor.