Medicine (MBChB)

Bachelor's degree

In Coventry

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Coventry

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The course emphasises values-based medicine and global health, with teaching delivered by expert academic staff who are committed to your learning and development. You will benefit from cutting-edge anatomy teaching using plastinated specimens and 3D imaging, and will build your clinical skills through supervised day-to-day work with patients. The second-year Core Clinical Education programme develops your experience of the principles of clinical practice in various hospital and community-based clinical settings. An additional six-week elective in a setting of your choice enables you to observe how medicine is practised in another country or in a different social, cultural and physical environment. Our graduates emerge committed to the highest standards of clinical practice, professionalism and patient care.

The integrated course ensures that clinical practice and underpinning knowledge, skills and behaviours are
developed together. Phase one comprises five blocks predominantly delivered on campus. Phase two introduces
greater clinical complexity and builds learning opportunities in different clinical practice settings. Phase three explores clinical subject areas in more detail and prepares you for your first job and Foundation training following graduation – 95.5% of our graduates were awarded a foundation placement in one of their top five choices in 2013.

Overarching themes include: personal and professional development; clinical skills; and values, law and ethics.
On graduating, you will receive your MB ChB (or equivalent) degree. This is a primary medical qualification (PMQ), which entitles you to provisional registration with the General Medical Council (subject to its acceptance that there are no Fitness to Practise concerns).

Facilities

Location

Start date

Coventry (West Midlands)
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University Of Warwick, CV4 7AL

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

This challenging, rewarding programme will develop your medical knowledge, clinical and research skills, attitudes, awareness of and enthusiasm for many fields of medicine, helping you to become a highly competent, compassionate and strongly motivated doctor. Our accelerated, graduate entry programme is the largest of its kind in the UK, providing first-class training facilities in local hospitals, early clinical experience and one-to-one supervision in clinical placements.

At the end of the MB ChB, graduates will be able to provisionally register with the General Medical Council and begin their Foundation posts. Successful completion of the Foundation programme is usually achieved within one year and enables you to apply for full registration with the General Medical Council as a doctor and to practise medicine within the NHS or in private practice.

This is a graduate entry course. You will need to have or expect to obtain a first class or upper second class honours degree. We accept honours degrees in any subject and we welcome candidates with Master’s and/or
PhD qualifications.

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MB ChB)

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Subjects

  • Primary
  • Teaching
  • Mathematics
  • Medical
  • Physics
  • Development
  • Medicine
  • Operations Management
  • Analysis
  • Quantitative

Course programme

Essential subjects

You must have studied either Mathematics or Physics at Advanced or Higher level study, although ideally you will have qualifications in both subjects. You must also achieve a pass in the science practical if your science A level includes a separate practical assessment.However, we recognise that Engineering draws on many skills and we are willing to consider highly motivated applicants with different qualifications provided there is good evidence of mathematical ability. We invite anybody in this situation to discuss their aspirations with us at the earliest opportunity.

We offer a Foundation in Mathematics module that can be taken in the first year in place of an optional module for those students not offering Mathematics at Advanced or Higher level study.

How will I learn?

The MB ChB programme is divided into three phases. The first phase spans a one-year period and focuses on the scientific basis of medicine, meaning that you will primarily learn through case-based and problem-solving study, attending lectures and working in small groups.

The second, year-long phase gives you an understanding of primary and secondary care settings as well as the expectations of patients and carers. You will be introduced to a series of more complex medical cases, to expand your knowledge and skills. Throughout the programme you will progress from directed-student learning in a structured environment to student-directed learning in the clinical environment. The third phase sets learningin the context of a series of specialist blocks, further enhancing knowledge around core subject areas and developing professional skills.

Throughout your studies you will have access to a great deal of support and guidance, both academic and pastoral, to help prepare you for your medical career. From the beginning of your course you will have a personal tutor, and a clinical educational supervisor as you move into clinical-based training. You will be additionally supported by Warwick Medical School academic and pastoral staff, your small learning group, and University of Warwick support services.

How will I be assessed?

Assessment is via a combination of written and clinical examinations. At the end of each year you will be assessed through written examinations, which have multiple-choice questions and short-answer questions; and clinical examinations will be conducted with simulated patients. In the final phase of the programme you will perform clinical examinations with real patients in the local NHS trusts.

Medicine (MBChB)

Price on request