Course Structure
You will spend the first year supplementing the basic knowledge you have gained in your undergraduate science degree with the additional material needed to take you to the same level as those who have completed the first two years of the six-year undergraduate MBBS course. That material will vary between individuals, depending on your experience.
The graduate course has been designed to accommodate individuals with different scientific backgrounds.
Students on this course will have demonstrated a very high level of academic ability in their previous degree(s), as well as a high level of self-motivation, both of which will allow them to take this opportunity to control the focus and pace of their own learning. Learning will be centred on the cellular and molecular science components of the existing undergraduate curriculum, in which students will have varied degrees of knowledge. As it is likely that students will have less experience of regional and systems anatomy and physiology and pharmacology, these courses will be taught more formally.
As entrants to the graduate course, you will be medical students from the first day. The “Foundations of Clinical Practice” theme will allow you to acquire communication skills and medical professionalism, as well as give you the opportunity to spend half a day per week on a clinical attachment.
After the first year, you will join the third year of the existing undergraduate course.
At the end of this year, you will then move into the fifth and sixth years of the existing undergraduate course.
The Courses Paralleled
MBBS/BSc (6-year degree) |
MBBS (Graduate Entry) |
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Year 1 |
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Year 2 |
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Year 3 |
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Year 4 (BSc) |
Exempt |
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Year 5 |
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Year 6 |
