Medicine

Your modules for year one cover the fundamentals of health and disease. You will also have the opportunity to study optional topics. The clinical placements, equating to one day per week (20%), will be spent in general practice and other community clinical and social care settings.

You will study modules totalling 120 credits.

Year 2

Your modules for year two continue to cover the fundamentals of health and disease. You will also have the opportunity to study optional topics. The clinical placements, equating to one day per week (20%), will be spent in general practice and other community clinical and social care settings.

You will study modules totalling 120 credits.

Year 3

During this year, you use your learning from years one and two, working with real patients in clinical settings, and build your medical knowledge with new modules studied on campus. The emphasis for year three is on developing clinical expertise, by observation, practice under supervision and reflection.

You will study modules totalling 120 credits.

Year 4

Year 4 consists of two clinical placement modules and an Independent Research Project, studied in parallel, followed by the second Integrated Practice module.

You will study modules totalling 180 credits

Year 5

Year five consolidates your learning and helps you prepare for clinical practice and your final exams. You undertake a 24-week rotation consisting of six four-week clinical placements in the specialties of:

• elderly medicine
• emergency medicine
• general practice
• medicine
• psychiatry
• surgery.

Please note, the General Medical Council (GMC) is planning to introduce a new Medical Licensing Assessment in all UK medical schools in 2022. This may result in significant changes to the structure of year five of your course.

A level

AAB which must include chemistry or biology, and one of either chemistry, biology, mathematics, psychology, physics, computing or computer science. General studies and critical thinking are not accepted as a third A level.

GCSE

A* to B or 9 to 6 in five subjects which must include English language, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics or a double science.