Medicine BMBS

Phase 1 is based across both the Brighton and Sussex university campuses at Falmer, one of the benefits of being members of two universities in the same city.

The purpose-built teaching facilities at Falmer provide a modern anatomy laboratory, tutorial and seminar rooms, lecture theatres, clinical science laboratories and IT resource suites. Fully equipped consultation rooms, identical to those used in GP surgeries and hospital out-patients departments, provide a setting in which to learn history taking and examination. These are sited close to a clinical skills training area which also houses an advanced patient simulator, computer-controlled to represent normal and abnormal physiology and a realistic response to drugs.

Phase 2 is based at the Audrey Emerton Building, the Education Centre at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. During these years, a balance between clinical and academic studies is maintained. You will consolidate your increasing clinical experience with your understanding of the underlying clinical, social science and public health issues.

Phase 3 covers year 5 and provides intense clinical and professional preparation for your first year in practice after qualification. Attachments will involve joining small clinical teams in medicine, elderly care, surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatrics, general practice and mental health, where your learning will be based on close involvement with routine clinical cases. Central to your study will be the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients presenting to these different areas of practice, acting as a member of the clinical team with the foundation doctors.