Clinical Attachments
Clinical experience is central to teaching and students at Aberdeen have increasing patient contact throughout the MBChB from Year 1. From 2009, much of the initial clinical skills teaching will be undertaken using the excellent facilities of our new state-of-the-art Teaching and Learning Centre - the Suttie Centre located on the Foresterhill Campus.
Aberdeen is a major centre for healthcare in the UK and its hospitals on the Foresterhill site incorporate the full range of clinical facilities required for the population of the North East of Scotland. As a Centre of Excellence, there are superb clinical opportunities and facilities for students in the teaching hospitals on site where early attachments are undertaken.
Later in the curriculum, students are able to undertake one of the most widespread and diverse selection of clinical placements in the UK, which are located across the whole of the North East of Scotland and across the Highlands and Islands. The additional clinical campuses at Dr Gray's Hospital, Elgin and Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, allows students to undertake hospital-based clinical placements outside Aberdeen. In addition, our extensive network of teaching general practices around Scotland, also give students opportunities to experience patient care in many different community settings.
This variety of placements allows our students to experience not only inner-city medicine, but also gives a unique opportunity to see how health care is delivered in areas far removed from large teaching centres. (see Aberdeen MBChB Year 4 and Year 5).