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Study Medicine at The University College London (UCL)
UCL offer a six-year integrated-style medical course. UCL has three clinicalcampuses across which core medical education is delivered: Bloomsbury campus,Royal Free campus and Whittington campus. But clinical placements also takeplace in other nearbyhospitals, GPs and other community-based healthcare settings.
The first two years take a system-based approach to learning the biomedicalknowledge underlying medicine alongside some early exposure to the clinicalenvironment. Students are educated in areas such as pathology, neuroscience,endocrinology, reproduction,circulation, metabolism, genetics as well as social sciences, etc.
The third year offers an integrated BSc programme (intercalation) in which youstudy in an field of interest to you. During this year your research knowledgeand skills are enhanced and you are offered the chance to explore what a careerin clinical researchmight be like.
The remaining three years of the course focus on expanding skills, knowledge andexperience of clinical practice in a range of attachments at hospitals, GPs andother healthcare settings. Learning in the fourth year focuses on maximisingdeveloping coreclinical skills and knowledge and further applying clinical context to thebiomedical knowledge from the first two years. Clinical education in the fifthyear focuses on the ‘life cycle’ of man with learning inspecialties including: Paediatrics and Family health, Women’s and Men’s health,Psychiatry, Sexual health, Oncology and Palliative Care, etc. The sixth yearfocuses on consolidation of clinical understanding andexperience and enhancement of the skills needed by a clinician (includingproficient communication, professionalism self-reflection and patient-centredapproaches to clinical scenarios).
In the final year, students take on assistantships in preparation for the futurejob as a Foundation Doctor. Student Selected Components (SSCs) are also offeredthroughout the duration of the course.
