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MBBS

Medicine & Surgery (Foundation Entry)

International students only

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

6 Years

Start

September 2023

UCAS Code

A101

Delivery

Campus Taught

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.

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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.

Hear what our current students have to say about studying Medicine

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Module overview

Course delivery

This course is taught face-to-face at one of our UK campuses.

100%Face-to-face

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.

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Our Westlakes Campus in Cumbria, offers global opportunities in stunning surroundings. Discover our outdoor campus and learn more about Westlakes.

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Academic expertise

Accreditations

The GMC recognises the University as one of the bodies to award primary medical qualifications. The School has been added to the GMC's list of bodies approved to award UK medical degrees.

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.

Fees and funding

2022/23

International

First year£24,000 for the first year

Full-time£46,000 per year

2023/24

International

First year£25,000 for the first year

Full-time£48,000 per year

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of bursaries, scholarships and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

Select your country to see eligibility information and how to apply by selecting more info on the cards below.

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For students on the MBBS foundation programme (Year 0), the progression requirements to Year 1 are listed below:

Average Percentage Mark (APM): 70%. Note that APM is calculated using only the Science and Maths modules (XYC001, XYC002 and XYC003). * XYC001: 65%
Pass (40%) for XY1004 and XY1005 modules with IELTS: 7 (with no exam component score less than 7) or equivalent. Students who do not meet the English language requirement need to complete the English Language (EF) modules instead of XY1004 and XY1005 and achieve a pass (40%) in every EF module.

The course is designed to achieve the learning outcomes as laid down by the General Medical Council (GMC) and will be delivered using the latest blended educational methods. Our aim is to enable you as a new graduate to confidently and competently approach your first working day as a safe, effective and compassionate, qualified doctor.

This will be an exciting and stimulating course. Medicine is a challenging profession but also very rewarding, exciting and stimulating. The MBBS programme places considerable emphasis on developing your expertise in a whole range of practical areas, including clinical, communication, observation, team-work and leadership.

There are three themes underpinning the MBBS curriculum that run throughout the final five years of the programme:

Evidence Informed Practice of Medicine (EIPOM)
Integrated Science and Clinical Medicine (ISCM)
Medical Skills and Quality Care (MSQC)

Years 2-6 of the programme focus on early patient contact and we have eliminated the traditional divide between pre-clinical studies and clinical years, which means that you will start seeing patients from your very first term. The final year of study comprises a series of workplace-based learning attachments comprising the final Transition to Clinical Practice.

For more details on the final 5 years of this programme visit our MBBS web page.

Once you enter year 2-6 of this programme, our clinical education partners include:

Following completion of the course, there are a number of postgraduate training routes available to MBBS graduates and our Transitions Lead will work with you on a prospective and proactive basis, from early in training, to facilitate onward working across the globe. If you have a country specific enquiry regarding postgraduate training and working after the MBBS programme please contact us (Greenbankhub@uclan.ac.uk)

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This course is based in the School of Medicine located in the Faculty of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences

For information on possible changes to course information, see our essential and important course information

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