Degree Programmes
Undergraduate
Degree in Medicine
The School of Medicine offers two routes of study for the MBBCh degree in Medicine: the traditional 5-year programme, and a 6-year Foundation programme.
Postgraduate Taught
The School of Medicine offers a wide range of high-quality taught postgraduate courses.
Postgraduate Research
The School of Medicine has an excellent record for research and scored highly in the 2001 RAE.
Teaching
The School’s major Undergraduate Programme is the MBBCh in Medicine.
This is a modern integrated five-year curriculum based on the guidelines of the General Medical Council (GMC) publication Tomorrow’s Doctors.
It is delivered in partnership with the School of Biosciences with additional contributions from Psychology and Social Science. Clinical placement teaching occurs in partnership with over a dozen NHS Trusts and over 150 General Practices, covering the whole of Wales. This ‘hub and spoke’ model gives a unique diversity of clinical learning experience in both hospital and community settings.
Other Undergraduate contributions are to the Honours BSc Programme in Pharmacology and to the BDS Degree in Dentistry.
A wide range of Post-Graduate Taught (PGT) Schemes is also offered. The School is the largest provider of medically-related PGT courses in the UK. These include both conventional and, increasingly, “distance learning” (e-based) teaching. Many courses are aimed specifically at qualified doctors and health care professionals, such as the Diploma in Practical Dermatology and the MSc in Psychiatry.