Medicine | MBChB

Course type: Single Honours
Duration of study: 5 years
UCAS code: A100

Course Content

Throughout the course there is an emphasis on feedback to help you improve your knowledge, understanding and performance of medical practice. The modern, spiral, highly-integrated medical curriculum combines a range of learning strategies, including:

  • early clinical experience
  • integrated communication and clinical skills teaching
  • practical sessions, including dissection
  • problem-based-learning (PBL), lectures, and seminars.

You will have extensive experience of clinical placements in both primary and secondary care settings and in the community sector. Inter-professional learning and student interests are fostered throughout the programme.

Further opportunities for diversity are encouraged through intercalation. Opportunities for intercalation to pursue an additional qualification in a medicine-related subject are available, and include studying at bachelor’s level after the second year or master’s level after the fourth year. Intercalation is a year out of your undergraduate medical studies in order to study a subject area in greater depth before returning to complete the medical course. An intercalated degree provides you with:

  • an opportunity to pursue an additional qualification in a medicine-related subject that interests you
  • acquire a better understanding of basic biomedical sciences, medical humanities and research methodologies
  • publish scientific papers and present at conferences

Our Course Information Documents (CIDs) are designed to give you all of the details you need to make an informed decision about what and where to study.