Do you have the potential and aspiration to become a doctor, but do not yet have the qualifications required to apply? Our MBBS Medicine with a foundation year is a 6-year programme will enable you to become a professional, compassionate doctor. Please note this course is open to international students only.
The foundation forms the first academic year, and this prepatory year is taught at our National Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine at our Westlakes campus in Whitehaven, Cumbria.
During this first year, you will learn scientific communication skills, fundamental biomedical sciences, and mathematics that, after your foundation year, you will apply to normal human body functioning and then later the disease state.
Please note this course is open to international students only. Foundation Entry for UK students via Medical Sciences, BSc (Hons) Foundation Entry.
Why study with us
- We have a large number of international students so you will benefit from learning alongside students from around the world.
- The programme is recognised by the General Medical Council (GMC) on its list of bodies able to award UK primary medical qualifications.
- Our foundation year will give you the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to be successful and automatically progress onto to our 5-year MBBS Medicine course.
What you'll do
- Your foundation year will be taught at our fantastic Westlakes Campus, where you’ll enjoy a supportive, multicultural learning environment with access to open countryside. You’ll be based close to the Lake District, England’s largest national park.
- You will have access to our on-campus clinical skills laboratories - to help develop clinical skills in realistic hospital, home and GP surgery environments.
- Once you progress to our 5-year MBBS course, you’ll benefit from a mixture of work-based learning and clinical placements throughout the programme.
Module overview
Year OCompulsory modules
• XYC001: Biological and Chemical Systems
• XYC002: Body Systems
• XYC003: Investigative Skills using Mathematics
Optional modules
• XY1004: Scientific Communication
• XY1005: Case study approach to scientific problem solving
• EF1501: English for Academic and Professional Development 1
• EF1502: English for Academic and Professional Development 2
• EF1337: English for Medical Sciences
Year 1
Compulsory modules
• UM1010: Integrated Science and Clinical Medicine 1
• UM1020: Evidence Informed Practice of Medicine 1
• UM1030: Medical Skills and Quality Care 1
Year 2
Compulsory modules
• UM2010: Integrated Science and Clinical Medicine 2
• UM2020: Evidence Informed Practice of Medicine 2
• UM2030: Medical Skills and Quality Care 2
Year 3
Compulsory modules
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UM3010: Medicine in Clinical Practice 1
• UM3020: Evidence Informed Practice of Medicine 3
•
UM3030: Medical Skills and Quality Care 3
Year 4
Compulsory modules
• UM4010: Medicine and Clinical Practice 2
• UM4020: Evidence Informed Practice of Medicine 4
•
UM4030: Medical Skills and Quality Care 4
Year 5
Compulsory modules
• UM4080: Transition to Clinical Practice
Course delivery
This course is taught face-to-face at one of our UK campuses.
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.
Future careers
We aim to produce graduates educated to the highest UK standards and who will become effective, safe and knowledgeable doctors wherever in the world they practice medicine. There are multiple options available upon graduation from the MBBS programme. Successful completion of the course will enable you to meet core requirements as a Junior Doctor and allow you to apply for provisional registration with the General Medical Council. All UK graduates are eligible to apply to the UK Foundation Programme. Entry onto this programme requires an applicant to have the right to work in the UK and involves a highly competitive process with other UK graduates.
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