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About this course
Studying Medicine will lead you to a long and rewarding career where you’ll transform patient lives every day.
With outstanding clinical placements and world-leading educators, we encourage you to develop your knowledge and skills to become a successful doctor from day one.
At Leeds we offer you...
**Exceptional placements**
- Learn in an environment where clinical experience is second-to-none.
- Benefit from our long-established partnerships with major Leeds teaching hospitals, local acute and regional general hospitals and practices. Here, you will have access to exceptional and varied placements with supervision from industry professionals.
**Outstanding teaching**
- We are Top 10 in the UK for research power. Our curriculum is informed by the world-leading research carried out at Leeds, and delivered by experts with an exciting and dynamic approach to education,
- We are international leaders in mobile learning. Our curriculum is constantly updated from continuous investment and innovation in our teaching resources.
- We are a recognised leader in patient and carer involvement. At Leeds, you will gain first-hand insight from people with a medical condition or disability, and their carers from our Patient Carer Community.
- You will be continuously supported by personal and course tutors, support staff and peer mentoring. Your wellbeing is a priority, and we want to help you make the most of your time at Leeds.
**Cutting Edge Facilities**
Our newly redeveloped medical school building is home to dedicated teaching facilities to enhance your learning.
- The Medical Teaching Centre (MTC) is the largest teaching centre in the UK and is equipped with sector-leading technology, private study spaces and computer clusters for you to develop your understanding of core scientific principles.
- Our Clinical Practice Centre (CPC) provides superb clinical skills training facilities, including simulation and state-of-the-art ultrasound equipment, and allows you to access independent learning opportunities and one-to-one clinical supervision.
**GMC registration**
Successful completion of the MBChB (and meeting Fitness to Practise criteria) allows you to register provisionally with the General Medical Council (GMC), the regulatory body for doctors in the UK.
**Gateway Year to Medicine**
At Leeds, we believe that an outstanding medical education should be accessible for all students, regardless of background. That’s why we’ve developed a new Gateway Year to Medicine course, designed to enable students from widening participation backgrounds students to develop their skills and scientific knowledge to advance to the MBChB course. You can find details about entry requirements and the application process on our course page.
**Please note that a student cannot be interviewed twice for the medical undergraduate programme in any given year: this means we would not be able to accept an application from a candidate for both the Gateway to Medicine programme (6 years including the Gateway year) AND the standard 5 year MB ChB programme.**
**Additional course information**
As well as the wide-ranging curriculum, there’s also chance to tailor your studies through Intercalation, a 6-week elective or a Year in Enterprise. You can find out more information about these options on our Coursefinder website.
Modules
Year 1
Introducing the fundamentals for clinical practice
You’ll start year one with a four-week induction period, to get to know your tutors and fellow students and the course requirements. There’ll be an introduction to study and the challenges of medicine, as well as social activities. The first year introduces you to the core professional themes, which run throughout the course, and the biomedical scientific principles which underpin clinical practice. These form the foundation of your undergraduate teaching which later years will build on.
The IDEALS (Innovation, Development, Enterprise, Leadership, Safety) theme addresses the challenges and requirements of modern practice, whilst Campus to Clinic develops your clinical decision-making and patient safety skills.
You’ll study biomedical sciences and integrate anatomy dissection with radiology, physiology, clinical assessment and pharmacology. You’ll learn about the psychological and societal aspects of behaviour and human development, their role in health and illness and treatment of medical problems.
Your communication skills, with both patients and fellow professionals, will be developed through teaching and through clinical placements with multi-disciplinary teams. You’ll increase your understanding of research methods central to delivering evidence-based medical care.
Year 2
Building on the fundamentals
You’ll enhance your understanding of clinical conditions, whilst developing insight into clinical laboratory science and the role of ethics and law in healthcare provision.
You’ll learn about the anatomy of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems. Further exposure to clinical practice will help develop your consultation, diagnostic and practical skills. You’ll appreciate the different types of investigations carried out in diagnosing common conditions and diseases across populations, and the ways in which illness impacts on individuals and society.
Your understanding of human experience and behaviour in health and illness will also continue to grow through academic teaching sessions, patient visits and exposure to the Patient Voice Group.
Year 3
Increasing clinical exposure with junior clinical placements
In your third year, you’ll continue to develop and consolidate the programme’s core elements and to learn about evidence-based medicine.
The SAFER-MEDIC theme links our core curriculum with GMC-identified outcomes and standards of undergraduate medical education.
Year 4
Gaining in clinical experience with speciality placements
In year four, you’ll develop a greater understanding of the genetic, social and environmental factors that determine disease, appreciate the principles of treatment and response to treatment.
You’ll learn about anaesthetic and perioperative care, acute and critical care, women and children’s health, recurrent and chronic illnesses, mental and physical disabilities, rehabilitation, relieving pain and distress, and palliative care.
You’ll further enhance your leadership, team-working, conflict management and negotiating skills and learn about the NHS business and organisational environment, legislation, strategic analysis and how to manage change effectively.
Year 5
The transition from medical student to doctor
As a final year MBChB student, you’ll be expected to call on knowledge from previous years that are of relevance to practice as a F1 doctor.
You’ll participate in three eight-week placements with a strong focus on making the transition from student to qualified practitioner. These longer placements help to build strong relationships with clinical teams.
Assessment methods
Assessment throughout the programme builds your knowledge and skills. It follows two broad approaches:
Informal/less traditional evaluation (Assessment for Learning) helps students understand how they are assessed and how this connects with their own continuous learning and development. It includes testing student learning “in course”, through written and practical exams, coursework and clinical assessments and delivering effective feedback, which may result in specific individual support and in students reflecting on their performance and working towards better outcomes.
More formal evaluation (Assessment for Progression) provides a standard against which decisions are made about whether you progress through the course. Students are tested in Clinical Anatomy, Clinical Skills and Practice, Knowledge Application, Critical Analysis, Writing and Project Skills, and Attitudes and Professionalism. Assessments involve written examinations, projects, case reports and objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs). The MBChB with Honours is awarded to outstanding students.
What students say
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How do students rate their degree experience?
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Clinical medicine
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Pre-clinical medicine
What are graduates doing after six months?
This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.
Top job areas of graduates
Medical degrees are some of the most difficult courses to enter, but very nearly all graduates go on to good, well-paid and secure careers in health. If you're taking a shorter pre-clinical course, you'll need to continue on to further medical training to complete an accredited qualification, which explains why a high proportion of those grads are 'in further study' six months later. And at the moment, the UK is short of doctors and we have upped the number of places available, so demand remains high.
What about your long term prospects?
Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.
Medicine and dentistry
The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
£37k
£45k
£48k
Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.
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