student funding for medicine after year four

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Basically, do students qualify for a student loan once they have completed four years of a five possibly six year course. Our ds thinks we will have to pay all his living costs. Any one know what happens?

Yes they do. It is an unusual situation whereby you pay undergraduate fees for what is essentially post-graduate study.

You may be eligible for some, albeit small, grants too due to the amount of time spent studying = less time for part time work.

Do you know the exact amount of living cost loan he would get from the student loan company. I don't think we would qualify for grants, but not sure we can afford to fund full living costs for two years. And there is no way he would be able to work.

I may be wrong but I thought years 4 & 5 of medicine qualified for NHS bursaries. The student can still claim for maintenance loan from student finance but course fees are met by the bursary. As I said - I may be wrong.

Yes fees are paid by NHS and they get 1000 each year. But that's not enough to live on, so are there any other sources of loan.

ethelb This also happens with the fourth year of a MChem degree.

NHS bursary, plus is the Access to Learning Fund still going for hardship cases? Clinical Medical students need to be in residence all year round and the ALF has helped with these additional costs in the past.