**Overview**

Our MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) is a 4-year, graduate-entry, programme that will prepare you to be a compassionate, highly skilled doctor able to pursue any career pathway you choose.

At Worcester you’ll spend much of your time learning medicine in the community alongside patients, as well as studying on campus. You’ll work closely with primary care teams, consultants and allied health professionals during a series of projects and placements - in general practice, outreach clinics, community hospitals and care facilities.

You will of course spend time in hospitals – for example on medical and surgical wards, from specialised cancer treatment centres and psychiatric in-patient units, to labour wards and research laboratories - but from your first weeks as a medical student you will meet patients in general practice and start to join them on their healthcare journey.

**50 home places confirmed for 2024**

The University of Worcester has been offered an allocation of 50 places on the course for September 2024 entry.

Dean of the Three Counties Medical School, Professor Sandra Nicholson, said: "We are delighted to receive the news of these commissioned medical student places for 2024. We have all worked incredibly hard to secure Government funding and this endorsement highlights our commitment to increasing the local medical workforce and recognises the contribution that the Three Counties Medical School will make."

Visit the University website to see the full details: https://www.worcester.ac.uk/about/news/2023-university-of-worcester-allocated-50-medical-places

**Key features**

- **Open to graduates of any discipline**. We welcome applications from graduates in any subject area, including non-science degrees.

- **Problem based learning**. You’ll work in small groups facilitated by practicing doctors following a 'problem based learning' curriculum. This often starts with the problems patients bring to you, and means you will learn about health from both the doctors’ and patients’ perspective.

- **Community based**. For much of the course you’ll be immersed in the community, NHS and local health care teams.

- **Clinical skills training**. We're developing a brand-new specialist teaching space on campus, which will contain simulation facilities for clinical skills training.

- **Interdisciplinary**. You’ll work and learn alongside students from a range of health professions courses – providing many opportunities to learn from one another.

- **Train for any specialism**. You'll train to work as a medical doctor and with further training can practice in any specialist area, from General Practice or Public Health, to Psychiatry, Anaesthesia or Surgery.

**Accreditation**

Like all new medical schools this programme is undergoing the process of accreditation by the UK General Medical Council (GMC). This process will not be finalised until our first cohort is about to graduate. At any stage, including before admission of the first group, the GMC approval process can be halted.

As part of the new school accreditation process, the GMC require new medical schools to have a contingency plan which would be enacted should the School not successfully complete the process or progression is delayed. The contingency plan is in place to allow those students who have been enrolled and started as students on the Worcester course to complete their studies and receive a UK Primary Medical Qualification from an alternative awarding body. Worcester’s contingency school is Swansea University Medical School.

Students from other new Medical Schools have told us that they enjoyed being part of a process that helped shape a new School with modern approaches, modern attitudes and enthusiasm for success.