Length of course:
5 years, Full-time
Typical entry requirements:
AAA
UCAS codes:
Course code – A106
Institution – M40 Manchester Metropolitan University
Course code – A106
Institution – M40 Manchester Metropolitan University
Course overview
Our MBChB Medicine degree is a five-year programme that educates, trains and prepares students to graduate as doctors who practice in the healthcare systems of today and the future. We use a wide variety of teaching and learning methods, with the key approach being the study of themed case discussions in small groups where students are proactive learners. This is supported throughout the course by lectures, practical classes and clinical experience.
At Greater Manchester Medical School, we believe that early clinical placements and exposure to healthcare settings are key to building your understanding and experience as a future doctor. Our course integrates science and clinical learning so you can apply scientific knowledge and concepts to your clinical practice. You will do this initially through what is often referred to as ‘early clinical experience’ placements in our partner organisations; comprising around six days in GP/community placements and three short visits to acute hospitals in both years one and two of your study. This is in addition to the full clinical placements that you will undertake in Years 3, 4 and 5.
Upon graduation, you will be able to apply knowledge, intellectual and practical skills to understand and manage the complex healthcare needs of individuals and society, at the same time as having developed the resilience to meet the demands of changing healthcare environments. You will also have gained valuable clinical experience in a range of acute and community healthcare settings.
The General Medical Council (GMC) has a pivotal role in all aspects of medical education. If you successfully complete the MBChB programme, you are eligible to apply for provisional registration with the GMC and thus for Foundation Year 1 posts.
Key features
– GMC registration
Gain the clinical experience and knowledge required to train as a doctor and be eligible to apply to the General Medical Council for provisional registration.
– Taught by experts
You will be taught by academic and clinical practitioners, bringing together their expertise from different fields of medicine.
– Extensive clinical experience
Gain extensive clinical experience in both hospital and community healthcare settings, starting off in Year 1 with ‘early clinical experience’ undertaken with our clinical partners.
– Whole body anatomy
Learn anatomy through a variety of approaches and techniques, including prosection.
– Personalised learning
Tailor your study through our Personal Excellence Pathway (PEP), which lets you select a range of modules and projects that interest you.
– Opportunity to study overseas
The chance to study overseas for a period of around six weeks in your fourth or fifth year of study. This is an option that many medical students choose to undertake, in order to gain experience of medical practice in another country.
– Intercalated degrees
The chance to intercalate after your second and/or fourth year onto the final year of specific undergraduate programmes and/or a range of one-year postgraduate degree programmes.
Entry requirements
A-level grade requirements:
AAA
International Baccalaureate grade requirements:
37 points overall, to include core points with at least 766 at Higher level.
Subject requirements:
Chemistry or Biology/Human Biology; and one of: Chemistry; Biology/Human Biology; Physics; Mathematics or Further Mathematics. Combinations of similar subjects (e.g. Biology and Human Biology; Mathematics and Further Mathematics) are not accepted. A pass is required in science practical elements where included.
Additional requirements:
Minimum of five GCSEs at grade A or A*/grade 7, or equivalent. English Language, Mathematics and at least two science subjects are required at GCSE, minimum grade B. A range of equivalent UK and international qualifications are also accepted. For further details of accepted equivalent qualifications, and required grades, please contact [insert GMMedS admissions email address]
Course content: Year 1
This course is currently subject to University approval.
During Year 1 you will spend most of your time at Greater Manchester Medical School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Alongside this, you will gain experience through early clinical placements at centres of excellence for clinical medicine, community settings and teaching hospitals across Greater Manchester.
At the start of the course, you are introduced to the learning processes necessary for successful study at university level, and will learn the consultation skills needed for your early clinical experiences.
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Years 1 and 2 are divided into four modules, which emphasise the theoretical foundations of medicine combined with a programme of early clinical experience. Each module is divided into a series of topics that can take the form of one or more themed cases, where you will learn about the body through detailed studies of molecules, cells, tissues and organs and the systems that control their activities. The modules are partially system-based but incorporate further themes related to the medical sciences including the behavioural and social sciences, ethics and law, epidemiology and public health and evidence-based medicine.
The cases contextualise learning to prepare you for the way in which doctors meet patient problems. The approach to learning around the themed case discussions will develop your skills in collaborative group working and independent learning.
There is an emphasis on practical work, including physiology and pharmacology practical classes, clinical experience, and personal development activities that are designed to introduce the skills and attitudes necessary to become a successful junior doctor.
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The Year 1 Life Cycle module addresses the cellular and molecular processes that underlie reproduction, development and growth. In addition, it explores the immune system and the pathophysiology of genetic disease and cancer. The second module of Year 1, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, focuses on the respiratory and circulatory systems including the function of the heart, lungs and blood.
Course content: Year 2
Year 2 continues with two more modules. The first is Mind and Movement, which explores the brain and the nervous system connections to the muscles that move the skeleton. The focus is on neuroscience, but the concepts in this module prepare students for concepts applied to clinical medicine, including mental health.
The final module, Nutrition and Metabolism, introduces the gastrointestinal system, the kidneys and the key hormonal mechanisms involved in regulating these systems.
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Early clinical experience develops your skills in clinical consultation and patient centred learning through structured teaching sessions using discussion and role-play with simulated and expert patients. You also develop practical skills in communication and physical examination. These sessions are complemented with clinical experiences with patients in hospital and community- related health environments.
There are also opportunities for you to begin to develop your Personal Excellence Pathway for special interests in medicine. The activities in Years 1 and 2 support literature appraisal, academic writing, team-working and presentation skills.
Course content: Year 3
From the beginning of Year 3 until the end of your final year, you will learn primarily though clinical placements organised around our clinical education partners in our associated hospitals, general practices and other community-based clinical services.
You will spend the majority of your week learning from real patients, and the basic scientific knowledge and clinical skills acquired in the earlier years will be applied in clinical settings.
Limited time is spent at university in sessions led by GPs, consultants and clinical academics (up to one day per week).
The first period of Year 3 will involve general clinical placements giving you access to common conditions in appropriate settings. These two 6-week blocks will be followed by three 4-week blocks in the second semester that will expose you to a more complex clinical environment, which will include more acute medical settings and a placement within a surgical specialty.
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Personal Excellence Pathway: Applied PEP project
Towards the end of Year 3, you will undertake the Applied Personal Excellence Pathway (APEP) which gives you the chance to carry out an original project involving, for example, basic or applied research, service evaluation, or educational development, supervised by a subject expert from Greater Manchester Medical School or the NHS.
Student-Selected Clinical Placement
The final activity of the year will allow you to select a placement in an area of clinical interest from within our clinics.
Course content: Year 4
You will broaden your clinical learning across the medical specialties, offering you the opportunity to immerse yourself in new clinical placements with supervision and teaching by specialty experts.
There will be clinical placements in:
– general practice and clinical public health
– mental health, neurology and special senses
– musculoskeletal health
– ageing and complex health
– women’s health
– child health
– oncology and breast health
– dermatology and infectious diseases
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PEP: Quality and Evidence
As you become more experienced in clinical environments, the PEP in Year 4 will focus on broader concepts of working in the NHS through quality enhancement projects. This will be completed in a single 4-week placement.
Elective
The year will end with an elective placement, either in the UK or overseas, of medical practice in an unfamiliar healthcare environment.
Course content: Year 5
The final year of the course will prepare you for your final university exams, national assessments such as the Prescribing Safety Assessment and, for your role as a foundation year doctor in the NHS; the year acts as your preparation for practice.
Clinical placements will include further general medical and surgical placements, general practice and acute medicine. A community placement will allow you to understand how medical services are delivered outside of the hospitals and general practices, for example, through experience in community paediatrics or community psychiatry.
All our students will undertake a Student Assistantship placement. You will be integrated into a clinical unit and, with appropriate supervision, will undertake most of the duties of a newly qualified doctor, including shift-working and being on-call. The final year will include a further Quality and Evidence PEP project and another opportunity to explore career choices through a second Student-Selected Clinical Placement.
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Intercalation
An intercalated degree provides the opportunity for you to take a year out of the MBChB to study on either a Bachelors (after Year 2) or Masters (Year 4) degree in a range of relevant bioscience and humanities subjects, allied to medical programmes.
A number of topics can be studied in depth during this year with most programmes having a significant research component, based on either laboratory work or a literature review, allowing exploration in depth of an area of biosciences or a specific aspect of medicine.
You will have the chance to intercalate after your second and/or fourth year onto the final year of specific undergraduate programmes and/or a range of one-year postgraduate degree programmes.
Placements
In your first two years, you will visit various community based NHS settings focussed in general practice but also including mental health, public health and other services, alongside acute and specialist provision. This will help you gain a good general understanding of what’s involved in each. Early clinical experience visits are normally undertaken in pairs, occur throughout the first and second years of study, and are generally a full day for each visit.
In your third year, around 80% of your programme will be undertaken as clinical placement learning in NHS hospitals and community practice settings. Time on clinical placement increases in your fourth and fifth years as you develop the necessary knowledge and skills required to practise as a doctor.
Methods of assessment
Throughout your course you will be assessed on both summative exams, which demonstrate you have reached the required standards to progress to the next phase of the course, and formative tests, which tell you how you are performing on the course and how you can improve.
These will include:
– written assessments
– practical clinical examinations
– clinical placement/workplace based assessments
– written reports
– practical skills assessments
– written reports to assess your professional development
Teaching staff
As a partnership between Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford, Greater Manchester Medical School boasts the teaching expertise of two established universities.
You will learn from academic and clinical staff with expertise in a range of specialisms, including musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, maternity, biomedical science, reproductive science and respiratory medicine.
Facilities
During Years 1 and 2 you will spend most of your time studying at Manchester Metropolitan University.
You can take advantage of all the facilities offered, including our extensive library, IT services, specialist biomedical labs, physiology labs, clinical skills labs and lecture theatres.
How to apply
Apply through UCAS. Remember to use the correct institution and course code.
Our institution code is M40 and the course code is A106.
The deadline for applications for 2019 entry is 15 October 2018.
Find out more about how to apply and our selection processes.
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