Medicine and Surgery MBChB
Master
In Birmingham
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Birmingham
Birmingham's MBChB is a degree where heritage meets ground-breaking innovation: we create the knowledge and we deliver it. We teach you the practical, theoretical and communication skills needed to become a safe, compassionate and ethical doctor of the future.
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Subjects
- Communication Training
- Medical training
- Doctor
- Medical
- Project
- Anatomy
- Communication Skills
- Medical Science
- Teaching
- Credit
- Surgery
Course programme
Modules in the first year
First and second years: your first two years are largely taken up with modules on the structure and function of the human body. You will learn how each system is controlled and is able to respond to the demands of everyday life and how they are affected by disease and medical treatments. Much of the anatomy is learned in small-group sessions, including substantial experience of prosection.
- Non-credit bearing - Basic Life Support
- 10 credits - Community Based Medicine 1 (GP placement)
- 40 credits - Foundations of Medical Science and Practice 1: Cell Science, Endocrinology, Neurones and Society
- 40 credits - Foundations of Medical Science and Practice 2: Health Behaviours, Musculoskeletal, Respiratory and Digestive Systems
- 20 credits - Professional and Academic Skills 1
- 10 credits - Regional Anatomy 1
- Non-credit bearing - Group Poster Project
- Non-credit bearing - Research Taster
Modules in the second year
- 10 credits - Community Based Medicine 2
- 40 credits - Foundations of Medical Science and Practice 3: Immunology, Health Care Provision, Cardiovascular and Renal Science
- 40 credits - Foundations of Medical Science and Practice 4: Brain, Decision Making, Reproduction and Cancer
- 20 credits - Professional and Academic Skills 2
- 10 credits - Regional Anatomy 2
- Non-credit bearing - Hospital Preparation Course
Modules in the third year
You will be based in our partner Teaching Hospital Trusts to further develop your basic clinical skills in taking a good clinical history and examining patients, as well as studying the communication skills needed for effective patient-doctor relations.
- 110 credits - Clinical Core 2: Hospital Based Medicine and Surgery and Community Based Medicine
- 10 credits - Evidence Based Medicine and Research Methods
- 10 credits - Health Improvement Evidence Review Project: a group project that reviews the evidence for a treatment chosen by the group
- Non-credit bearing - Clinical Procedural Skills: in each year students have a set of skills they need to become competent in performing
- Non-credit bearing - Year 3 Professional Development Activities
Modules in the fourth year
Fourth and fifth years: you will now move onto clinical attachments in a range of specialities such as Cardiology, Neurology, Psychiatry, Bone and Joint Disease, Oncology, Ear, Nose and Throat and Peri-Operative Care.
- 130 credits - Clinical Core 3: anaesthetics, cardiology, community based medicine, dermatology, diabetes, ENT, endocrinology, gastroenterology, genito-urinary medicine, geriatrics, hepatology, nephrology, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, palliative medicine, psychiatry, radiology, respiratory, rheumatology, urology.
- 10 credits - Conference Poster Presentation: you present the findings of a quality improvement project you have undertaken
- 10 credits - Learning and Teaching project: you learn how to teach your peers
- Non-credit bearing - Clinical Procedural Skills
- Non-credit bearing - Elective Preparation
Modules in the fifth year
During the Final year, you will be able to bring all of your learning and skills together through the Acutely Ill Patient attachment which prepares you to deal with patients’ problems as they present to Foundation doctors.
- 120 credits - Clinical Core 4: medicine and surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, general practice
- Non-credit bearing - Clinical Procedural Skills
- 10 credits - Ethics and Law in Clinical Practice: based on a case you have seen which raised ethical or legal difficulties
- Non-credit bearing - Immediate Life Support
- Non-credit bearing - Selected Career Experience: three weeks to explore a specialty that you are interested in
- Non-credit bearing - Student Assistantship: after the final examinations an opportunity to polish up skills prior to starting work as a Foundation Year 1 doctor
- Non-credit bearing - Written Professional Communication: a group project looking at the various ways in which doctors communicate in writing
- Non-credit bearing - Prescribing Safety Assessment: a national exam to ensure graduates are safe to prescribe
- Non-credit bearing - Elective and Report
Please note: The modules listed on the website for this programme are regularly reviewed to ensure they are up-to-date and informed by the latest research and teaching methods. Unless indicated otherwise, the modules listed for this programme are for students starting in 2020. On rare occasions, we may need to make unexpected changes to compulsory modules; in this event we will contact offer holders as soon as possible to inform or consult them as appropriate.
Medicine and Surgery MBChB