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Swansea University Medical School

About The Course

Swansea’s MBBcH graduate entry course is a four-year course that follows an integrated, spiral curriculum. The small size of Swansea’s medical school means that students will benefit from extensive contact with academic staff. Students will have clinical contact from the beginning whilst learning about the fundamental biomedical sciences in a clinical context, pathology, ethics and psycho-social issues in patient management.

Through lectures, practicals and seminars, students will spend each learning week on a different clinical case. The cases fall into six different themes: nutrition, development, transport, movement, defence and behaviour. This course does not follow the traditional ‘body systems’ structure, but instead focuses on how clinicians approach patients.

The programme is split into two phases, with phase one occurring during year one and two. During these two years, students will have learning weeks that are case based and incorporate Integrated Clinical Method. Additionally, one day of every fourth or fifth week is dedicated to community-based learning in a GP. Learning opportunities in both a clinical and research setting are also experienced too.

In phase two, over years three and four, there are clinical apprenticeships and assistantships in the Medicine, Surgery and Primary Care settings. Students also undergo speciality attachments over eight five-week placements in Medicine, Women’s Health, Mental Health, Child Health, Acute Surgery as well as sub-specialties of Medicine and Surgery and Frailty. These all include Integrated Clinical Method and simulation too. There is an opportunity for an elective in year four, which many choose to take overseas. At the end of year four and prior to FY1, students will take on a senior assistantship in which they will shadow FY1 doctors.


Academic Requirements

GCSEs: Graduate Entry only - GCSE Mathematics and English or Welsh at grade C or above.

A-levels: N/A N/A. Graduate Entry only - a 2:1 undergraduate degree in any subject is required.

Scottish Higher: N/A N/A

Scottish Advanced Higher: N/A N/A

International Baccalaureate: N/A N/A


Admissions Process

Admissions Tests:

UCAT
N/A - GAMSAT required for Graduate Entry.

Interview Type: Traditional


Admissions Statistics

Total number of applicants: 1000
Total number of places: TBC
Total number of entrants: TBC
Acceptance rate: TBC

Fees

Home students: TBC
Rest of UK: TBC
International students: TBC

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