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Undergraduate Medicine 2024-2025

ME1010: PRE-CLINICAL STUDIES (NESCOL)

0 credits

Level 1

First Term

ME1510: INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH & HEALTH SERVICES IN THE UK

15 credits

Level 1

Second Term

ME2021: CLINICAL SKILLS 1

20 credits

Level 1

Full Year

The Clinical Skills 1 course introduces the process of diagnosis and treatment through medical history taking, clinical examination, performance of basic clinical procedures and clinical assessment that is appropriate to the patient's needs. In year one the course covers the principles and application of clinical skills, clinical examination and communication skills in general terms and as applied to the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. It also introduces students to the clinical environment and to patient centred care and patient safety. The professional and ethical principles of the doctor are introduced and the need for medical students to take personal and professional responsibility for their actions and their learning.

ME2512: MEDICINE 1

30 credits

Level 1

Second Term

This course is the start of the systems based teaching in the medicine curriculum and incorporates the form and function of the human respiratory and cardiovascular systems in both health and disease and the biomedical principles which underlie them. Diagnosis and management of common respiratory and cardiovascular disease are studied. This course is only available to students in year 1 of the MBChB programme/ year 1 of the B Clin Med Sci programme.

ME2020: ANATOMY 1

20 credits

Level 2

Full Year

This course delivers the anatomy content for Year 1 MBChB.

ME2511: STUDENT SELECTED COMPONENT 1

10 credits

Level 2

Second Term

ME3029: ANATOMY 2

30 credits

Level 2

Full Year

ME3030: CLINICAL SKILLS 2

30 credits

Level 2

Full Year

The course builds on the process of diagnosis and management through, clinical communication (history taking and explanation and planning), clinical examination, performance of clinical practical procedures and assessment appropriate to patient

Year 2 covers principles and application of clinical skills, in generic and specific terms as applied to the general, respiratory, cardiovascular, alimentary, head and neck, neurological, endocrine, urinary, and musculoskeletal systems. It also builds on students’ exposure to the simulated and clinical environments whilst focusing on patient centred care and patient safety.

ME3031: MEDICINE 2

60 credits

Level 3

Full Year

ME3033: CLINICAL SKILLS 3

25 credits

Level 3

Full Year

The course builds on the process of diagnosis and management through, clinical communication (history taking and explanation and planning), clinical examination, performance of clinical practical procedures and assessment appropriate to patient Year 3 covers principles and application of clinical skills  in specific terms and as applied to the reproductive system and communication skills relevant to psychiatric, paediatric, and breaking bad newsWhilst building exposure to simulated and clinical environments with continued focus on patient centred care and patient safety. 

ME33GH: GLOBAL HEALTH AND HUMANITIES

30 credits

Level 3

First Term

Medicine is a global profession framed by forces going beyond national boundaries, such as food insecurity, human migration, climate change and conflict. It follows that medical education needs to keep pace with these changes and to ensure the next generation of doctors are aware of global issues, regardless of whether they choose to work in the UK or overseas. This awareness improves their critical thinking, enables them to empathise more with patients from diverse backgrounds, and strengthens their ability to understand the challenges faced by different types of health systems – and not just the NHS. Global health covers issues of health and healthcare across the world, and not just in developing countries.

ME33HA: HUMAN ANATOMY: DISSECTION WITH HISTORICAL CULTURAL & SOCIAL DIMENSIONS

30 credits

Level 3

First Term

ME33HA is a semester 1 30-credit Year3 MBChB course within the Medical Humanities SSC Block. In this course, students explore the historical evolution to the current day of anatomy/medicine and its intercalated connection with history, art, archaeology, and sociology. This course is centred around a self-directed clinically relevant historical project of students’ choice with an anatomical context. The course is based in the Anatomy Department. The methods of study largely involve self-directed research with weekly historical lectures delivered by experts from various fields, interactive tutorials, and library-based studies. Students will be assessed by historical research reports and group presentations.

ME4020: ELECTIVE OUTLINE

0 credits

Level 4

Full Year

ME4022: SENIOR CLINICAL PRACTICE 4A

15 credits

Level 4

Full Year

The Year 4 curriculum builds on the considerable breadth and depth of specialty knowledge of Years 1-3 systems-based teaching and provides the clinically based core learning required in Outcomes for Graduates (2018) for graduating doctors. Building on prior learning, Year 4 students will be able to apply their knowledge of basic physiology, anatomy, pharmacology and pathology to patients with a wide range of problems. The Year 4 curriculum is designed to ensure that students achieve the standards set by the GMC across a broad range of clinical settings and conditions. These experiences will enable students to increasingly contribute to the care of patients under supervision.

ME4023: SENIOR CLINICAL PRACTICE 4B

90 credits

Level 4

Full Year

The Year 4 curriculum builds on the considerable breadth and depth of specialty knowledge of Years 1-3 systems-based teaching and provides the clinically based core learning required in Outcomes for Graduates (2018) for graduating doctors. Building on prior learning, Year 4 students will be able to apply their knowledge of basic physiology, anatomy, pharmacology and pathology to patients with a wide range of problems. The Year 4 curriculum is designed to ensure that students achieve the standards set by the GMC across a broad range of clinical settings and conditions. These experiences will enable students to increasingly contribute to the care of patients under supervision.

ME4024: PREPARING FOR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 1

0 credits

Level 4

First Term

This one week taught course sets the scene for the clinical learning that students will undertake, on a rotational basis during the seven, six week long clinical blocks ahead.  It provides both whole group teaching and smaller group discussion of how to make the most of the learning opportunities in clinical areas, with a focus on learning from and through work, both signposted activities and through experiential learning.  It also discusses expectations of professional behaviour in senior clinical practice.

ME4302: PREPARING FOR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 2

0 credits

Level 4

First Term

This one week taught course (the second of the Professional Practice Blocks) provides both whole group teaching and smaller group discussion regarding professional behaviour in senior clinical practice and revisiting the horizontal themes that were launched in the first the Professional Practice Block at the start of Year 4.

ME44M2: MEDICAL HUMANITIES DISSERTATION

30 credits

Level 4

Full Year

ME4902: STUDENT SELECTED COMPONENT 3

15 credits

Level 4

Second Term

ME4903: SENIOR CLINICAL PRACTICE (WRITTEN EXAM)

45 credits

Level 4

Full Year

ME4904: SENIOR CLINICAL PRACTICE (OSCE)

45 credits

Level 4

Full Year

ME5012: YEAR 5 ASSESSMENT

0 credits

Level 5

Full Year

ME5013: ALTERNATIVE CLINICAL BLOCK YEAR 5

40 credits

Level 5

Full Year

ME5014: MEDICINE/PAEDIATRICS/CARE OFTHE ELDERLY

40 credits

Level 5

Full Year

ME5015: SURGICAL SPECIALTIES/OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY/ANAESTHETICS/ITU

40 credits

Level 5

Full Year

ME5016: GENERAL PRACTICE/PSYCHIATRY

40 credits

Level 5

Full Year

ME5017: MEDICAL ELECTIVE

40 credits

Level 5

Full Year

ME5018: IMMEDIATE LIFE SUPPORT (ILS) COURSE

0 credits

Level 5

Full Year

ME5801: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE BLOCK

20 credits

Level 5

Full Year

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