Bachelor's degree

In Hull and Heslington

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Description

  • Duration

    5 Years

Students learn essential teamworking skills, with shared discussion that helps pinpoint learning outcomes and how to pursue them.

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Heslington (North Yorkshire)
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John Hughlings Jackson Building, University Of York, YO10 5DD

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Hull (East Riding of Yorkshire)
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Hertford Building, University Of Hull, HU6 7RX

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About this course

* GCSE English Language at grade A.
o If you are a school-leaver and have grade B, you may contact us to provide evidence that you have subsequently used English language skills in subjects at AS, A level, or a higher qualification.
* GCSE Maths at grade A.
o If you are a school-leaver and have grade B, you may contact us to provide evidence that you have subsequently used maths skills in subjects at AS, A level, or a higher qualification.
* Six other GCSEs at grades A-C.
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Course programme

MB BS Medicine

Mode:
full-time

Introduction
HYMS has an international reputation in medical education. Our innovative curriculum has been designed specifically to meet the fast-changing challenges of 21st-century healthcare, so it emphasises modern teaching methods, a solid grounding in the sciences, and regular clinical contact from the very start of your course.

Above all, everything you study at HYMS will remain focused on the central concern of medicine -- the patient.

  • Contact with patients: Not only is clinical experience always a keystone in your weekly programme, but half of your placements take place within primary care settings. This is unique to HYMS, and allows you to develop awareness throughout your course of how healthcare operates where the greater part of it takes place -- in general practice and other community contexts.
  • Problem-based learning: In the first two years, you learn in the supportive, stimulating environment of problem-based learning groups. Extensive electronic resources support and enhance learning opportunities.
  • Managing limited resources: Including resource management in the curriculum prepares you to make informed, efficient use of the varied means available for promoting health, diagnosing and treating disease and helping people live with chronic illness.
  • Making a difference: Underlying all HYMS training is our belief that the medical school should bring positive change to meet the needs of our local communities, especially in areas where there is social deprivation and high levels of disease and death.

The HYMS curriculum
Relevant
To be a successful doctor who can meet the diverse healthcare demands of the 21st century, you need thorough, in-depth knowledge of all the relevant sciences. But you also need a sensitive understanding of people and of society, effective communication and teamworking skills, and the ability to manage and optimise resources.

Integrated
The HYMS curriculum is integrated. This means that each new topic is explored through a range of themes and disciplines, instead of dealing with one issue at a time in isolation. For instance, in learning about the anatomy and physiology of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems, you may also learn about how to relate sensitively to someone newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis; about the social effects of disability; and about the support services available in the community.

Patient-centred
From the start of the course, you’ll spend time each week on clinical placement. You’ll meet and observe real patients with problems related to the system you are currently studying, and learn directly from practising doctors. Half of this placement time is spent in a hospital setting and half in general practice or other community settings, allowing you to gain understanding of healthcare problems in different contexts.

Problem-based
For the first years of the course, you start work on each week’s topics within a small problem-based learning group, with a facilitator who guides you in your learning. The varied aspects of the curriculum are delivered by a combination of clinicians, biomedical and social scientists and healthcare professionals, together providing you with the diverse skills required of tomorrow’s doctors.

Phases I, II and III
The five-year HYMS MB BS course is divided into three phases – Phase I, Phase II and Phase III.

  • Phase I covers the first two years of the course. You will be based either in Hull or in York for both years, undertaking blocks of learning in a problem-based learning group and benefiting from a wide range of innovative learning methods.
  • Phase II, which is Years 3 and 4, is largely spent on a series of eight-week clinical placements across the region in a variety of acute, primary and community healthcare settings – with continued access to computer-based university teaching resources.
  • Phase III covers the fifth and final undergraduate year, which provides extensive experience in medicine, surgery and primary care as well as a two-month elective and a period of shadowing a house officer.

Clinical placements
During the third and fourth years of your medical course, you will spend your time on a structured series of clinical placements across the HYMS region.

You will rotate in a small group of students through clinical settings across the region, but linked always to Hull, York or one of the three other main centres: Scarborough, Grimsby or Scunthorpe. This wide dispersion allows for good staff/student ratios in all teaching and learning exchanges (the optimum group size for learning in a practical environment is two to four) and it also provides extensive opportunity for one-to-one consultation practice with patients.

For each placement, you will continue to alternate between a hospital and general practice or other community setting. Some are city-based, while others are further afield in small towns or rural areas.

Health problems vary hugely across the region, with areas of significant urban and rural deprivation close to areas of significant wealth. Patterns of health vary, but heart disease, teenage pregnancy rates and drug abuse are severe problems in Hull.

Student-selected components
Student-selected components (SSCs) give you the opportunity within the busy medical curriculum to concentrate on subjects that particularly interest you. They enable you to broaden and deepen your core learning.

At HYMS, you can choose your SSCs from a very wide variety of topics, grouped within three overarching themes: sciences, clinical issues of special interest, and arts and humanities. For students in Years 1 and 2, the current list includes:

  • Medicine and evolution
  • Introduction to British Sign Language
  • HIV-AIDS
  • Experiments in neuroscience
  • Happiness: the new science
  • Radiology of stroke
  • various modern languages taught specifically for medical students

SSCs are not an optional extra. They are required by the General Medical Council , and they currently make up about a quarter of the curriculum. As well as the opportunity to study widely outside the core curriculum, they help you to acquire and use research skills, develop greater confidence in your own abilities, and undertake small-scale projects.

They also enable you to work with knowledgeable and experienced tutors, passionate about their subjects. They allow you to express yourself, take subjects that are out of your comfort zone, develop your ability to think critically and challenge other people's opinions. And finally, they can help you develop a particular area of interest which you may choose to develop as part of an intercalated degree.

Exams and assessment
HYMS makes use of two main types of regular assessment:

  • Formative assessment is intended primarily for your own benefit, and these marks never 'count' towards your final qualification. Regular formative exams should help you see for yourself how you’re getting on, where you are doing well, and where you need to increase your efforts.
  • Summative exams take place at the end of Years 1, 2, 4 and 5. They assess your progress to make sure you are achieving an appropriate level to continue the course, and ultimately to determine your final qualification.

As far as possible, assessments are designed to test how well you apply knowledge, rather than simply how well you can recall facts.

Record of achievement
Your record of achievement is a collection of completed documents which demonstrate your attendance and performance at clinical placements and clinical skills sessions throughout the course.

Personal portfolio
Your portfolio is intended to develop a pattern of thoughtful reflection on your own progress, including the ability to discuss difficulties and failures -- an essential habit for all doctors to cultivate and maintain throughout their careers.

In it, you note your problems and failures as well as achievements, considering what lies behind them, noting constructive criticism and thinking about how to improve in areas where you aren't satisfied with your work.

After you graduate
On graduating from HYMS, your MB BS joint degree from the two universities will equip you to start practice as a Foundation Year house officer. The Foundation programme is a two-year general programme forming a bridge between medical school and specialist or general practice training.

Over the two years, Foundation Years 1 and 2 trainees have the opportunity to gain experience in a variety of specialties and healthcare settings before applying to enter their specialist area. Within that context there will naturally be openings for those wishing to pursue academic medicine, as well as for clinicians.

There are sufficient Foundation posts available across the HYMS area for all those HYMS graduates who wish to remain in the region.

Entry Requirements
You must have all of the following:

  • GCSE English Language at grade A.

o If you are a school-leaver and have grade B, you may contact us to provide evidence that you have subsequently used English language skills in subjects at AS, A level, or a higher qualification.
GCSE Maths at grade A.
o If you are a school-leaver and have grade B, you may contact us to provide evidence that you have subsequently used maths skills in subjects at AS, A level, or a higher qualification.

  • Six other GCSEs at grades A-C.
  • A-levels: Our typical offer is AAA, including Biology, Chemistry and a third subject at A2 level. You will also need a fourth subject at AS level grade B. (For meeting these requirements, we don't accept General Studies or Critical Thinking.)

You can also offer a single vocational A-level in Health and Social Care or IT, or a distinction in a single level 3 BTEC award or certificate, in combination with Biology and Chemistry A-levels.

Medicine

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