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Contents

Student lie

11 From the Dean

12 Studying with us

14 Studying at York

16 Studying at Hull

18 Exploring the cities

20 Accommodation

21 Student activities

Our course

24 Introduction

25 Te curriculum

26 Te MB BS course

28 Phase I

32 Student-selected components

34 Phase II

38 Intercalated degrees

40 Phase III

44 Examinations and assessment

45 Research

46 Aer you graduate48 Foundation

Applications

52 How to apply

54 Entry requirements

56 Health and disability

57 Other requirements58 Selection procedure

60 Diversity and widening access

62 International student admissions

64 Contacts65 Map


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www.hyms.ac.uk10 Introduction

Welcome to HYMS. Since opening in 2003, we havebecome known as one o the UKs most welcomingand inclusive medical schools, with a reputation orinnovative, inspiring, exciting and rigorous medicaleducation. HYMS is based in two well-establisheduniversities, in the attractive and historic cities o Hulland York. As a student here you will benet rom earlyclinical placements within healthcare acilities in thesurrounding region, which contains some o Englandsmost beautiul countryside.

Te aims o HYMS are clear: to ensure thatyou will graduate as a clinically capable doctor whohas a good understanding o both the scientic andhumanistic basis o medicine. Our course meets therequirements o the UK General Medical Council

(GMC) on the uture training o medical students(www.gmc-uk.org/static/documents/content/omorrowsDoctors_2009.pd).

Making ull use o the most up-to-date approaches toadult learning and teaching, we have adopted a student-centred approach. We encourage you to learn by seeing,doing and reecting as well as by studying, and we placean emphasis on the quality o the learning and clinicalenvironments you will encounter. Usually working in

small groups, you will learn about the scieand knowledge underlying the practice oin the wider context o the healthcare o ptheir amilies and communities. Our progcontinues to develop, benetting rom tho contemporary educational methods, learesearch and eedback rom our students,aculty members.

Aer ve years you will graduate with theMB BS jointly awarded by the universitiesYork, which equips you to embark on urton a Foundation programme, working as

Tis prospectus outlines the particular strHYMS course and the ways in which it is dierent. Medicine is a great proession angreat place to learn it.

I look orward to welcoming you here inSeptember 2013.

Professor Tony KendrickDean of HYMS

Why HYMS?rom the Dean
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www.hyms.ac.uk12 Student lie

Our course is resh, innovative and distinctive. It hasall the dynamism you would expect o a young medicalschool. We welcome 140 new students every year and they begin their regular clinical placements in thethird week.

HYMS also has a reputation or high-quality teaching.We draw on the academic standards o our parentuniversities, as our generally excellent perormance inuniversity league tables shows.

Our 700 students are not all undergraduates. As well asa wide range o intercalating options, we are developingpostgraduate medical education and internationallyrecognised research.

Your degree

At the end o our ve-year medical course, yougraduate with the degree o MB BS, awarded jointlyby the universities o Hull and York. Tis UK- andEU-recognised primary medical qualication combinestwo rst degrees: Bachelor o Medicine and Bachelor oSurgery.

Aer graduating, you are entitled to provisionalregistration with the UK General Medical Council, witha licence to practise, provided you can demonstrate thatyour tness to practise is not impaired. (You can nd outexactly what this means at www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate.asp.)

In years 1 and 2, you are based in either Hullor York. From year 3 onwards, you spend much o yourtime on clinical placements around the region (see mapinside back cover).

You can take an extra (intercalated) year betweenyears 2 and 3, or years 4 and 5, at York, Hull or anotheruniversity, to work or a BSc (Hons) in Medical Science(see page 38).

Studying at HYMS

Our parent universities have outstanding academic andclinical acilities. As a HYMS student, you get the best oboth worlds.

York excels at health-related research and bioscience,with considerable expertise in clinical trials,epidemiology and health economics.

Hull is strong on research into cardiovascularand respiratory medicine, gastrointestinal and cancersurgery, and oncology.

Library acilities

Te libraries at the two universities together have nearlytwo million books and over 20,000 current journal titles,

as well as a wide range o DVDs, e-books, cassettes,music and multimedia CDs. Tere are textbooks andother resources specic to the HYMS curriculum atboth universities. On clinical placement you also haveaccess to local NHS libraries.

I acilities

At HYMS, you use inormation technologday. At the start o the course, we introducBlackboard, which provides computer-bayour studies, busy online discussion boardand sta, and a variety o learning and othrelevant to your current topics.

We have a dedicated high-speed computespanning both universities and all NHS simultimedia PCs are available wherever Hpresence. Computer connections are also York student study-bedrooms and rom uowned houses in Hull.

Hull York Medical School was set up in 2003 by theuniversities o York and Hull, in partnership with the NHS.

Te partnership covers 1.6 million people in Hull, the EastRiding, York, North Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire.Our vision is simple: we oer a cutting-edge medicalcurriculum or 21st-century doctors.

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Studying at York

York is one o Britains most distinguished and successul

universities. It is large enough to have a rich and variedsocial and cultural lie, but still small enough to have a realcommunity eel that is welcoming and riendly to its 11,500students.

Te university

Lie or all York students is centred at Heslington on theedge o the historic city o York, where our colleges areset in an attractive landscaped campus. It is compact andhas a sae, r iendly atmosphere.

Te campus is quiet and easy to move around, generallytrafc-ree, and with ast and requent bus services tothe city. Tere is a network o cycle paths, and cycling ispopular both on campus and around the city.

One o the irst things I was impressed with wasthe York campus the beautiul lakeside views andscenery are ideal or evening walks, especially ater ahectic PBL session!

Anne Dokubo, Year 3

Student lie

Yorks student lie is lively, especially at Heslington, whereeverything is close at hand. Most colleges have eatingplaces and bars. Te campus also has ood stores,cashpoints, bookshops, a second-hand book mart, astationery store, a ully-equipped sports centre, tennisand squash courts, lm theatres, concert halls and ocourse a health centre.

Te university has award-winning newspapers, its owntelevision station and Britains rst independent radiostation. It has over a hundred student societies, orreligious groups, political parties, music, dance lessons,lm production, juggling, drama and much more. Tereare over y sports clubs, competing at inter-college

and inter-varsity level, ranging rom cricket, rugby andootball to potholing, skateboarding and paintballing.HYMS students also have their own societies, whichlink the York and Hull campuses.


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Studying at Hull

Generations o graduates and their amilies have describedHull as the riendly university and the level o studentsupport it oers is unparalleled. In act a recent National

Student Survey showed that Hull students are among thehappiest in Britain! Te main problem or Hull students isthat, as one independent guide put it, they dont want toleave.

Te university

Te main campus is on the outskirts o Hull (but onlya ten-minute bus ride rom the centre) near the leay

village o Cottingham, where the university has many oits halls o residence.

Hull has a solid reputation or research, particularly inareas relevant to medicine: chemistry, biological science,biomedical science, psychology, sport, health andexercise science all score consistently highly in externalresearch assessments.

With the number o societies and sports to join, Hulljust never gets boring. Studying medicine here is thebest!

Ruth Whitford, intercalating student

Student lie

With over 15,000 students rom 125 countries, theuniversity is cosmopolitan. It also has excellent supportservices, always putting the welare o its students rst.

Te union is the hub o campus social lie andHull University Union is recognised as one o the beststudents unions in the UK. Recently it was awardeda Silver Student Union Evaluation Initiative Award.It has over a hundred clubs and societies, an award-winning nightclub, two bars, a heated terrace, bustlingmarketplace, bookshop and even a hairdresser, and theunion is strongly involved in community projects andcampaigns.

Sport and recreation are taken seriously at every level.Students benet rom more than orty well-establishedsports clubs, some proessionally organised, and the useo superb on-campus sports acilities at cut-price rates.


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York

Tis stylish, compact city amous or Romans,Vikings, churches, chocolate and railways containsthe best o old and new. Its old buildings remainmarvellously preserved, but York is an exciting and busyplace. You can wander among ascinating shops andpicturesque streets in the shadow o the magnicentMinster; watch the world go by rom the many cas,pubs, restaurants and riverside bars; pick rom a longmenu o lm, drama, art and music at its cinemas,theatres, galleries, clubs and music venues.

And or peace and quiet, you can stroll along thelongest and best-preserved city walls in England, withwonderul views o the medieval city. It is easy to get

around on oot or using the citys cycle routes. York issome two hours by train rom Edinburgh or Londonand well connected with the rest o the country.

Te ancient northern capital is today a Scinternationally recognised as a centre or rand innovation. It has 240 biotech, I andtechnology companies, many o them unispin-os.

With open countryside on the doorstep, anwolds beyond, outdoor pursuits o all kindAnd, when youve done walking, climbingmountain biking, caving and canoeing, Yoinviting places to eat and drink.

Hull

Tis resurgent waterront city is being transormed byover 1 billion o investment. A regional centre or arts,culture and heritage, Kingston upon Hull, with its strongmaritime tradition, is at an exciting point in its history.It oers plenty to do and see.

Te spectacular marina, a surprise to many visitors,connects the city with the sea. Te Deep, the worldsonly submarium, is an icon o Hulls regeneration. Aswell as theatre (Hull ruck is internationally acclaimed),cinema and art exhibitions, Hull has an impressivemuseums quarter, and the buzzing city centre oerstraditional pubs, stylish ca bars and shopping to suitall tastes. St Stephens, the l atest development, includes

a new retail centre, transport interchange, hotel andapartments.

Sport is big in Hull. Te magnicent KingstonCommunications Stadium is home to Hulls leadingteams, including Premiership ootball side Hull City andthe two Super League teams, rugby giants Hull FC andlocal rivals Hull Kingston Rovers. Te stadium has a lsohosted concerts by the likes o REM and Bon Jovi.

Creativity ourishes here too. Te poets Philip Larkinand Andrew Motion and the late Oscar-winning lmdirector Anthony Minghella all have connectionswith the university. Te award-winning actors omCourtenay and Maureen Lipman were born here, andHull has produced musical acts too, including TeHousemartins, Fine Young Cannibals and

Te Beautiul South.

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Hull

Te University o Hull oers various types oaccommodation: catered halls o residence, sel-cateringon-campus ats and sel-catering university-ownedstudent houses. Some residences are specially adaptedor students with disabilities.

All these options are open to you, but we recommendstudent houses or the ensuite rooms in aylor Courtats or HYMS students, because these places oer acontract that matches the HYMS terms. Te 31-weekcontract period in halls is shorter than the HYMS terms,so you would need to nd another place to stay duringthe extra days. You might be able to move into a studenthouse or this period.

Prices range rom 60 or a student house (sel-catered)to 95 per week or on-campus ats.*

York

I you are based at York, you become a member o one othe Universitys eight colleges, which all have their ownon-campus accommodation. College rooms are single,and many o them have en-suite acilities.

All rooms are sel-catering, but you can eat at one o theca bars or dining rooms around the campus. Mostcolleges also have a V room, bar, common room andlaundrette. Tere is specially appointed accommodationor those with disabilities.

For a single, standard, sel-catering room, prices range rom85.82 to 111.86 per week, or 118.02 or an ensuite room.*

*Tese prices are for the academic session 201112;prices increase annually.

As well as all the things you can do in Hull and York,and the clubs and societies in the two universities,HYMS students have set up societies o their own:

e Wilderness Medical Society runs a large varietyo activities, including mountain biking, scuba diving,walking and rock climbing. Tey also organiseworkshops, talks and an annual conerence on subjectssuch as disaster planning, military medicine andexpedition medicine.

e GP Society holds talks, social events andworkshops or students interested in a career as a GP,and those who want a better understanding o primarycare.

Minds in Motion, which has won a national award,

is our voluntary project reaching out to people withdementia, by oering activities at three CommunityUnits.

Among the sports societies or HYMS stumens and womens rugby teams, ootball riding club. In addition, HYMS MedSoc oevents like barbecues, quizzes, nights out aballs.

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www.hyms.ac.uk24 Course

What else makes our course special?

Clinical experience is the keystone in your weeklyprogramme, and hal o your placements are inprimary care settings. Tis is unique to HYMS. Itmakes you aware how healthcare operates where mosthealthcare happens: in the community.

In your rst two years, you study medicine throughproblem-based learning as part o a group. With thegroups support and st imulus, you develop essentialteam-working skills, and the shared discussion helpsyou to pinpoint learning outcomes and work out whatto do next.

Because disease doesnt exist in isolation, HYMS usesa thematic approach so you can integrate everythingyou learn.

You learn resource management so you can makeinormed, efcient use o the means available orpromoting health, diagnosing and treating disease, andhelping people live with chronic illness.

Each aspect of the curriculum is taught by acombination o clinicians, biomedical and socialscientists, and healthcare proessionals, passing on theexpertise that tomorrows doctors need.

Our extensive electronic resources ll any gaps andenhance your learning.

Underlying all HYMS training is a belie that ourmedical school should make a dierence to thecommunities around us, especially in areas with social

deprivation or high levels o disease and death.

Relevant

o be a successul doctor who can meet the demands o21st-century healthcare, you need up-to-date, in-depthknowledge o all the relevant sciences and an innovativeapproach. But you also need a sensitive understandingo people and society, the ability to communicate andwork in a team, and the skill to manage resources.

Integrated

Te HYMS curriculum is integrated. Tis means thateach new topic is explored through a range o themesand disciplines, instead o dealing with one issue at atime in isolation. For instance, in learning about theanatomy and physiology o the musculoskeletal andnervous systems, you may also learn about how to relate

sensitively to someone newly diagnosed with multiplesclerosis, about the social eects o disabilityand about support services in the community.

Patient-centred

From the start o the course, you spend timweek on clinical placement. You meet andpatients who have problems related to theyou are studying, and you learn rom pracYou spend hal your placement time in a hhal in general practice or other communi

Problem-based

For the rst year o the course, you start wweeks topics as part o a small problem-bagroup, with a acilitator to guide your learnabout this, see page 28).

When we came to design the HYMS curriculum, we startedaresh. We wanted new ideas, resh approaches and the latest

developments in 21st-century healthcare, while stayingocused on what medicine is all about the patient. Tat ledus to problem-based learning, which is part o the distinctiveethos o the HYMS course.

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Our MB BS course

Te ve-year course is divided into three phases.

Phase I

Phase I covers the rst two years o the course. Youare based in either Hull or York, and your weeklyplacements match up with the subjects in your problem-based learning group. You also use a wide range o otherinnovative learning methods.

Phase II

Phase II, which is years 3 and 4, is largely spent on aseries o eight-week clinical placements across the regionin a variety o acute, primary and community healthcaresettings with continued access to computer-baseduniversity resources.

Your placements are normally grouped in blocks, so

you are unlikely to move location more oen than everythree to six months.

Phase III

Phase III covers the h and nal undergraduate year,in which you gain extensive experience in medicine,surgery and primary care, arrange a two-month electiveand shadow a house ofcer.

Temes, systems and structures

Seven themes are woven through the HYMScurriculum, which is structured around six groups obody systems. You begin by studying these systems inturn, or about our weeks each. It is a spiral curriculum:you keep returning to these body systems andexploring the same themes, to reresh and deepen yourunderstanding o every topic as the course progresses.

Te seven themes threading through the course are:

Life sciences, Clinical sciences, Clinical techniques and skills, Evidence-based decision making,

Person-centred care, Population health and medicine, Managing resources for quality and eciency.

Te six groups o body systems, relating tolearning, are:

Pathology, immunology and cancer, Respiration, cardiovascular medicine an

dermatology, Gastrointestinal medicine, metabolic an

renal medicine, Reproduction and child health, Mental health, Musculoskeletal and nervous systems, sp

and elderly persons medicine.

In the early stages o the course, you ocusunderstanding what is normal in each syLater, the emphasis moves to understandin

and illnesses that aect the systems, with thand consequences.

Everything has been planned meticulouscurriculum is ully integrated, consolidatiand knowledge throughout the course.

Alex Cornish, Year 4

MB BS course structure

Year SystemsTemes

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Pathology, imm

Respiration, cadermatology

Gastrointestinmetabolic, ren

Reproduction child health

Mental health

Musculoskelet

nervous system

Lie sciences

Clinical sciences

Clinical skills

Evidence-based medicine

Person-centred care

Population health

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Apart rom plenary sessions (lectures) and clinicalplacements, in the rst two years you do much o yourlearning in a small problem-based learning (PBL) group,with a acilitator guiding you. Tis approach may benew to you, but it has been tried and proved in medicaleducation or more than y years. Although highlydemanding, its also un! Your PBL acilitator is also yourpersonal tutor.

PBL means that you meet with eight to ten otherstudents or two sessions each week, sharing a room asyour workbase. With guidance rom your acilitator,you work as a group tackling problems raised by virtualpatients in a ctional medical setting. Each new topicis introduced to your group by these virtual patients.

For instance, starting work on the respiratory andcirculatory systems, you meet Harry Flemming, a heavysmoker with a persistent, hacking cough, and studentHilary Jones, whose voice has become hoarse.

Te aim is not to solve these patients problems, butto nd out what you need to know to understand theproblem ully. You work as a group to identiy all theissues or learning outcomes that each problem raises.You explore these issues through the weeks plenary

sessions (lectures), supervised resource sessions,clinical skills teaching, clinical placement and your ownindividual study, all related to the topic o the week. Tenlater in the week your group meets again with youracilitator to share and discuss what you have learned,consolidating the key inormation.

O course, PBL requires initiative and sel-motivation,and a readiness to work in partnership with others, butthe rewards are great. You never nd yoursel wonderingWhy do I have to learn this? because you and yourgroup soon see why starting rom the problems oyour current patient. You will be talking the language omedicine rom the start o your undergraduate course.

In this context you can orm strong relationships, adapt

to working with people o dierent personalities andbackgrounds, and learn to work as a team when tacklingproblems while also developing exible, independentlearning skills that you will use throughout your career.

You can nd out more about PBL on the HYMS website:www.hyms.ac.uk

Clinical skills

During Phase I, you attend clinical skills sessions twice aweek, on the same aernoon as your PBL sessions.

We use an integrated approach to emphasise theimportance o the relationship between the variousskills you use in a consultation, including physicalexamination, mental state examination, history-taking,diagnostic reasoning and communication. For example,good communication is an inherent part o a successulphysical examination; and diagnostic reasoning is also aproduct o good communication, physical examinationand consultation management.

You learn how to perorm physical examinations byexamining each other and by being examined yoursel(peer physical examination). Tese examinations arecarried out in a proessional atmosphere under the closesupervision o your clinical skills tutors. All students areexpected to participate in this key requirement o thecourse.

Problem-based learning is a breath o reStudying various aspects o medicine throlearning helps to understand ideas more e

Muhammad Islam, Year 2

In Phase I, everyone ollows exactly the same course, whether

they are in Hull or York. Your clinical experience begins atthe start o Year I with hal-day placements. Tese generallyalternate between hospitals and community settings,including general practice.

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Clinical placements

From the start o Year 1, you are allocated to a group oour or ve students or your clinical placements. Youspend hal a day each week on placement, one week ina hospital, the next week in the community, under theguidance o a practising doctor. All rst-year placementsare within a hal-hour journey rom your campus,and transport is available.

Placements are not just a chance to observe patients,but also an opportunity or you to start developing yourconsultation and examination skills. Your placementtutor knows what you are studying and will ensure thatyou see real patients with the same problems as thevirtual patients you began studying earlier in the

same week.

Te time you spend on placements increases as youprogress through the course. In Year 2, they occupya ull day each week, again alternating betweencommunity and hospital care. In the mornings yousee patients with conditions relating to the subject youare currently studying; in the aernoons you ocuson understanding the cases you have seen, along withrelevant clinical material.

he weekly clinical placements have helped to buildup my conidence and communication skills with realpatients. he placements are the highlight o my week.

Rumana Hussain, Year 2

Sample rst-year timetable (the PBL week begins on Tursday)

Tursday

9.1510.00

KEY: CP Clinical PlacementCS Clinical ScienceCSP Clinical Skills PracticeLS Lie Sciences

PBL Problem-Based LearningPCC Person-Centred CarePHM Population Health and

Medicine

RS Resource Session SDL Sel-Directed LearningSSC Student Selected

Component

10.1511.00

11.1513.15

14.0015.30

16.0017.30

Friday Monday uesday Wednesday

Plenary PCCTe two agendas Pro I Watt

Plenary LSUpper airway tractand chest Dr M Lagopoulos

PBL Harry Flemming Hilary Jones

Free

CSPListening to the patient

SDL SDL

SDL PBL Harry Flemming Hilary Jones

CPPractising your listeningskillsInterviewing two patients

RS Plenary LSDevelopment o bodycavities and lungs Dr S Cobb

WorkshopIntroduction to portolio(11.1512.00)

RS

Plenary CSRegulation o breathingand cough Pro A Morice

Plenary PHMPerceptions o illness Dr S Nettleton

SDL

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I did a Drama SSC that looked at how medical illnesswas portrayed in the arts, and in particular how thearts might help us to develop an appreciation andunderstanding o what it might be like or people livingwith disabling illnesses. As part o our assessment wehad to develop a character that had some orm o illnessand, using various methods, try to engage in theirpsyche and depict their illness through a perormance.he character I developed was based on the boxerMuhammad Ali who suers rom a orm o ParkinsonsDisease that may have been linked to his bouts in thering. By showing the impact his condition had on hislie, I was able to create a piece that resonated amongstthe audience as well as give me a deeper understandingo the subtleties involved in disability.

he piece has since been perormed at a cor Medical Education and the group has to exas University Medical Branch in AmQueens University, Belast, Ireland, next develop arts in medical education.

Jerome Edet, Year 4

You choose rom a wide variety o topics within threegroups: sciences, clinical issues o special interest, andarts and humanities. In Phase I, you take six SSCsand the current list includes Human Variation and itsOrigin, Introduction to British Sign Language, HIV-AIDS, Experiments in Neuroscience, Medicine andthe Media, Radiology o Stroke and various modernlanguages taught specically or medical students.

wo thirds o your SSCs must be related to medicine,but we recommend you choose at least one rom eachgroup, to broaden your learning. Te other threeSSCs can reect your personal interests and strengths,possibly looking towards an intercalated degreeprogramme (see page 38) or helping you to explore

potential career paths.In Phase II, SSCs are oered on a variety otopics at locations across the region. Your elective inPhase III (see page 40) must be in a clinical area or arelated science; there are no limits on where you do it.

SSCs help you to acquire and use research skills, developcondence in your abilities and undertake projectso manageable size. Tey enable you to work withknowledgeable and experienced tutors, passionate abouttheir subjects. Tey also allow you to express yoursel,take on subjects outside your comort zone, and developyour ability to think critically and challenge othersopinions. So stretch yoursel with an SSC anyone upor yoga?

I really enjoyed the sign-language SSC and amollowing it up with a more specialised course, Signlanguage in mental health. I think itll be really useulwhen I qualiy.

Gemma Cubbin, Year 5

Student-selected components (SSCs) enable you

to broaden your core learning, and also to concentrate onsubjects that particularly interest you. SSCs are not anoptional extra: the General Medical Council requires them,and they orm about a quarter o your curriculum.

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Sarah Shore, Year 3, describes a typical Phase IIplacement week in Scarborough.

Monday

I wasnt timetabled or any sessions this morning soI went o to the surgical ward at 9am to nd somesuitable patients to clerk (meaning to meet them andrecord their medical history). I met three patientswith this weeks problem and two consented to beingexamined. Tis aernoon I attended the oncologyclinic; I shadowed the consultant and his registrartalking to patients about the chemotherapy andradiotherapy theyd need. Te session nished a littleahead o schedule and I went home to read up on someo the learning outcomes or the week.

uesday

My clinical placement partner and I were on theroad at 7.30am to drive to our GP practice in Whitbyrom our accommodation in Scarborough. Te GPobserved our history-taking and examination skillsin the morning session and we spent lunchtime atthe hospital going over some x-rays and speaking topatients whod just been admitted. We shadowed theGP in the aernoon and le the surgery at 6pm to gohome and read up on some o the problems that wedcome across in the surgery today that had been set aslearning outcomes by our GP.

Wednesday

Another early start and back to the GP surgeryin Whitby. Just beore the morning clinic started,we quickly ed back to the GP the answers to theclinical questions we had been set the day beore.In the aernoon we were sent to a patients houseto take a history and do a ull examination as thepatients problems related to the theme o the week.We managed to shadow our GP or the last hour osurgery beore heading back to Scarborough andwriting up one o the patients that wed seen with thisweeks problem. Whilst its been a tiring week so ar,

we all popped to the pub or last orders beore casepresentations tomorrow.

Tursday

Tis morning we had our case-history teaching withone o the consultants. All eight students studying thisblock at Scarborough presented a case they had seenthat week, and we all discussed the patients and newlearning points they had identied. Fortunately I hadsel-directed learning in the aernoon so I managedto pop home or a power nap beore doing some morereading and nally calling into the Acute AdmissionsUnit or the ward round in the evening.

Friday

We had a teleconerence (an academic discussionorum) across the ve HYMS sites, relating to theblock we are studying. Te acilitator took questionsrom us that had not been answered in the week andclaried some o the more difcult concepts. Tataernoon we had sel-directed learning so I tied up aew loose ends rom the week and looked orward

to returning to York or the weekend to recharge mybatteries beore next week!

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You can also opt to do an intercalated degree. Tismeans an extra year o study, giving you an extra degree a BSc, or in some cases an MA or MSc. You can do thisbetween Phase I and Phase II, or between Phase II andPhase III. Places on the intercalated year are allocated onthe basis o perormance on the MB BS programme.

Intercalated degrees carry extra prestige, strengthenyour academic record and enhance your career options especially i you want to work in a competitive arealike surgery, research or academic medicine. You get achance to specialise or expand your interests. You canlearn research skills with leading academics, exploring asubject in more depth than the main curriculum allows.You become a more reective and thoughtul doctor.

You can intercalate within HYMS, Hull or York, or (withpermission) elsewhere in the UK. Students intercalatingat HYMS ollow a special nal year course; those at theuniversities o Hull and York join the nal year o a BScprogramme.

Te intercalated programmes at HYMS, Hull and Yorkinclude:

applied ethics, cancer biology, cardiology, developmental biology, functional morphology and evolution, genetics, infectious disease and immunology, molecular microbiology, molecular and cell biology, neurobiology, parasitology, reproductive biology,

sports science.

he intercalated degree gave me a breather romthe MB BS course and a chance to study somethingdierent. Now I have returned a year later, perhaps a bitresher and with a degree already under my belt.

Kathryn Potter, Year 3

We warmly welcome students rom other medical, dentaland veterinary schools to study at HYMS or intercalatingdegrees that draw on the combined expertise o our parentuniversities, Hull and York.

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On your three eight-week placements, you are attachedto a Foundation Year 1 doctor and given responsibilityor providing some care or patients. You also gainexperience in interproessional working, and in givingpresentations on common management issues to thewhole class. Tis early responsibility helps to ease thetransition to Foundation Year 1.

Your elective

You also have an eight-week elective, when youexperience medicine in a dierent context, backed bysel-directed study. Tis is also a chance to reect onyour proessional and personal development. Electivesso ar have included hospitals and research institutes inVanuatu, enerie, Belize and South Arica, as

well as organisations in the UK, such as the Institute oNeurology in London.

Interproessional working

Troughout your course, but especially in Phase III, youhave opportunities to work closely alongside healthcareproessionals rom dierent disciplines.

Tis is important because doctors do not work inisolation in todays healthcare services. Instead, a rangeo health and social care workers are involved dependingon a patients needs and may include proessionals suchas social workers, psychologists, nurses, occupationaltherapists, community support workers andpharmacists.

During your training at HYMS, you will see thismultidisciplinary team in action when you join wardrounds, community team meetings, home visits andrehabilitation meetings, and by joining these teams youwill see how eective communication between them canimprove the experience o patients.

By the time you reach Phase III the nal year you have sufcient skill and knowledge to work alongsideother healthcare proessionals. You work as an assistant internin medicine, surgery and primary care.

Phase III

Year 5 students Rob Davey, Alex Co ombs andLaura Hume asked HYMS staf and students orsecond-hand ootball shirts to distribute to orphansand schools in Blantyre, Lilongwe and CapeMaclear, during their medical elective at QueenElizabeth Central Hospital, Malawi.

We decided that kids in the ourth-poorest country inthe world would have nothing and, with ootball beingthe universal game, we thought it would be a great ideato collect and distribute shirts rom sta and studentsat HYMS. We also collected them rom schools and

leisure centres in the area and in Nottingham and Bath,our home towns. In total we had over 1000 shirts, over100 pairs o shorts and 48 whistles weighing about250 kilos! We had them kindly transported to Malawiree o charge by the Knorr Bremse shipping company.

With the help o a charity in Malawi, Action or theBenet o Children, we distributed shirts to veorphanages around Blantyre, a secondary school in

Limbe and several ootball teams in Lilonwere previously playing without kit. We alto kids at Senga Bay and Cape Maclear ono Lake Malawi. Te only problem was weenough shirts, so we intend to go back in twith more!

Our elective was an absolutely antastic exheart-wrenching at times many peoplenothing. It was also completely chaotic, buthe same again. It was a lot o legwork, papdonkey work, but well worth it!

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he elective place I took up was at the Institute oNeurology, London, and was part o an establishedelective programme.

he structure o the eight weeks was as ollows: I wasassigned to the neuropsychiatry irm (team) andgiven opportunities to examine, work up and presentcases as requested by the registrar. Each irm consisted

o consultants, two specialist registrars, two seniorhouse oicers and two medical students. here wasan emphasis on ormal teaching, with opportunitiesto attend lectures, outpatient sessions, ward rounds,tutorials and other aspects o the teaching programme. Iwas expected to attend the teaching and business roundso the consultants on the irm, as well as those by theregistrars.

he majority o my time was spent in neuropsychiatrybut I had access to all general neurology teaching andwas given the opportunity to gain clinical experiencein other aspects o neurology. My aim in taking thiselective was quite generally to gain a knowledge andclinical experience o neuropsychiatry which is notaorded through the basic undergraduate syllabus. Mycareer aspiration when I applied to study medicine wasto practise psychiatry.

Mary Docherty, HYMS graduate doctor

Ater much thought and relection I decided that Iwanted to study medicine in a developing country ormy elective.

here were multiple reasons or this choice, the irstbeing that I wished this elective to, above all, provide mewith problem-solving and diagnostic skills. I elt that ina country where diagnostic tests were sparse and where

clinical judgement played the most important part indiagnosing patients, I would inevitably improve myskills at both history-taking and examination. I intendedto become more comortable identiying pathologicalindings and, as a result, more conident in my own ideaso the disease process underlying the patients problem.Secondly, I wished to study in an area where I wouldsee conditions that are rare in the UK. As a studenta lot o t ime is spent reading textbooks. However,at the end o the day, I elt that one o the mostimportant parts o understanding a disease is seeing thepatient and hearing their story. hereore seeing cases oB, malaria, elephantiasis etc provided me with a betterunderstanding o such conditions and also hopeullyenabled me to better identiy such problems should Iever be aced with them in the UK.

I set to work to ind a country which would ulilmy needs. his is when I came across Vanuatu, aneconomically developing archipelago o 83 islandssituated in the Western Paciic, where I spent myelective period.

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We use two main types o regular assessment, ormativeand summative:

Formative exams are mainly for your own benet;these marks never count towards your nalqualications. We also provide sel-tests, which youcan do whenever you wish, to see how youre gettingon or where you need to increase your eort.

Summative exams take place at the end of years 1, 2,4 and 5. We use these to assess your progress so wecan be sure you are attaining an appropriate level tocontinue the course. Tese exams also determine yournal qualication.

Integrated medical science papers, assessing progressacross the curriculums seven themes, along with

structured clinical and practical examinations, arenaturally all part o this. As ar as possible, ormal examsare constructed to test whether you can apply knowledgerather than just recall acts. Tis is consistent with the PBLstyle o learning, which sets the acquisition o knowledge inthe context o a realistic patient problem.

Record o Achievement

Your Record o Achievement (RoA) is a very importantcollection o signed orms and other material thatdemonstrate your attendance and perormanceat clinical placements and clinical skills sessionsthroughout the course. Te RoA contributes to yoursummative assessment, or which a satisactory level operormance is required.

Personal Portolio

Another important element is your Personal Portolio.Te idea behind this is that you cultivate the habit othoughtul reection on your own progress, an essentialpractice or all doctors throughout their careers. Inyour portolio o learning, you note your problems

and ailures, successes and achievements, consideringwhat lies behind them, recording constructive criticismand thinking how to improve in areas where you arentsatised with your work. Tis is an essential ormativeexercise, but is not part o the summative assessment.

As a student at HYMS, youll be taught by researcherswho are working at the cutting edge o their disciplines,and youll have the opportunity to interact with themthroughout the course.

Research is an important part o medicine. It underpinsadvances across the spectrum o healthcare, romclinical trials to assess how GPs prescribe medicines,through to molecular biology research identiying newdrugs to ght major diseases.

Our research is organised into ve Centres, eachconducting world-class research. Te Centre orAnatomical and Human Sciences conducts researchinto musculoskeletal biomechanics and paleoecology;the Centre or Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases

ocuses its eorts on heart ailure, diabetes and bloodrelated disorders; the Centre or Health and PopulationSciences provides the ocus or research on mentalhealth, health and social policy and epidemiology; theCentre or Immunology and Inection conducts clinicaland experimental work on chronic inectious diseasesand autoimmunity; and the Centre or Neurosciencespecialises in developing and applying neuroimagingtechniques.

Much o the research conducted in HYMSdisciplinary, spanning traditional subject band reaching out into other departments wUniversities o Hull and York. For instancwork with medical engineers, immunologcomputer scientists and neuroscientists wTis approach provides a vibrant atmosphgreater opportunities or innovative medic

Well provide you with ample opportunityor research. You might undertake a vacatstudentship, opt or student-selected comocusing on research, or even intercalate oBSc or MSc programme. Tese options muel your curiosity. Or, i you choose, they

orm part o a programme o activities thabuild your CV and lead you into an acaderesearch career.

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Completing your Foundation years opens up the ullrange o medical careers in hospital specialities and inthe community, and also in public health, academicresearch, the armed services, medical management andmedical journalism.

Te rst HYMS students graduated as doctors in 2008in a grand ceremony in Hull City Hall. We are delightedthat many o them have opted to stay in this region,to develop their careers in the hospitals and surgerieswhere they studied during their course. Others haveused their HYMS qualication to nd work elsewhere inthe UK and urther aeld.

Alumni

When you graduate, you become a member o theHYMS Alumni Association, part o the alumnicommunity o our two parent universities, entitledto make use o all their benets and services. TeAssociation helps you keep in touch with the school,and each other, as you move into the next phase o yourcareer. In time, we hope the Association will generatea range o voluntary activities, such as mentoring andorganising events, or social purposes and or thepromotion o medicine.

With an MB BS joint degree rom HYMS, your next careerstep is employment on the two-year Foundation programmeo general clinical training.

Aer you graduate

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Foundation trainees gain experience in a variety ospecialties and healthcare settings beore applying toenter their chosen specialist area. Within each specialtythere are openings in academic medicine, as well asor clinicians. Tere are sufcient Foundation postsavailable or those HYMS graduates who wish to remainin the region (see map inside back cover).

North Yorkshire & East Coast Foundation School

Te NYEC Foundation School is one o threeFoundation Schools within the Yorkshire and theHumber Deanery. Our hospitals include Scarborough,Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Hull and York with a total o 175F1 programmes across the School.

By the time you come to us in Foundation Year 1, youhave already been on placement in each o our vehospitals during your undergraduate course so youknow our hospitals, our consultants and the otherhospital sta. Tis helps to ease you into your role as aqualied doctor.

We oer a wide range o specialties in both years, butall oundation doctors also spend one year in a districtgeneral hospital (Scarborough, Grimsby or Scunthorpe)and one year in a teaching hospital (Hull or York).

Our school also runs a number o Academic FoundationProgrammes in HIV/Genitary Urinary Medicine,Psychiatry and Primary Care (in conjunction with theUniversity o York). rainees on these programmes arebased in York or Year 1 and Hull or Scarborough orYear 2.

o nd out more, please see our website www.nyecpgme.org.uk/oundation or, orinormation on Foundation raining in general, seewww.oundationprogramme.nhs.uk. We look orward

to welcoming you in the uture.

Tis two-year general programme orms a bridge betweenmedical school and training or a specialty or general practice.

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www.hyms.ac.uk52 Applications

You must apply through UCAS directly to HYMS institution code H75 not to the University oHull or the University o York. Your application shouldreach UCAS by the published closing date, usually 15October o the year beore the start o the course. Lateapplications are not considered.

Student intake

We oer 140 places each year on the ull ve-year MBBS course, A100. Tere is no accelerated graduate entry.en places are reserved or overseas students outside theEU/EEA. Tere are no other quotas.

Campus allocation

You must be prepared to accept allocation to the

University o Hull or the University o York or the rsttwo years o your course. Tis allocation (normally byballot) is only made aer all applicants have rmlyaccepted their oer o a place at HYMS. For moreinormation, see www.hyms.ac.uk/admissions.

Overseas students

See page 62; or academic requirements, see pages5455.

Applicants rom other medical schools

We do not accept transer o students rom othermedical schools under any circumstances, because o theintegrated nature o the HYMS course. We do not acceptapplications rom anyone who has been enrolled atanother medical school in the UK or abroad.

Equal opportunities policy

All applications are given ull consideration irrespectiveo the applicants age, gender, sexual orientation,disability, marital or parental status, religion, social class,

nationality, ethnic origin or area o residence.

Beore you apply

You must have some hands-on experience o helpingrail or ill people. You should nd out how the doctorsrole ts in with the rest o the healthcare team, in ahospital and in the community, even i you are notable to shadow a doctor. Get experience by talkingto, observing or working (as volunteer or employee)with healthcare proessionals in dierent settings.You should be realistic about the demands o being amedical student, and the positive and negative aspectso a medical career, and show that you understand, andare committed to, teamwork and the social context ohealthcare.

Gap year

We welcome applicants who have taken a gap yearbeore coming to HYMS, because so many students ndthe extra experience benecial. You may apply in yourA-level year (or deerred entry) or during your gap year.You must nevertheless be able to attend an interview onone o the xed dates between December and February.

Te UK Clinical Aptitude est

All applicants must take the UKCA duri(calendar) year when they submit their apFor urther inormation, see www.ukcat.aUKCA score is used (as described in detaHYMS website), along with academic resupersonal statement and the interview, to mo places. Te test is open to all applicants A-level predictions. It helps to widen partiidentiying very able students with low pregrades who may nevertheless achieve the results.

Useul reading

Learning Medicine by P. Richards, S. Sto

R. Foster and E. Ingall (CUP) Choosing a Medical School by A. Young

(developmedica) 2010 Getting into Medical School by S. Horne

2011

Check the admissions pages regularly atwww.hyms.ac.uk/admissions it may save youa phone call. Our website is requently updated.

How to apply

HYMS participates in the open days o its parentuniversities, Hull and York.

For the dates, see our website. We advise you to booka place, on the website o whichever campus you planto visit, at least two weeks in advance. It is not possibleto arrange individual inormal visits to HYMS at othertimes.

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For all applicants

GCSEsEight grades AC, including an A grade in Mathsand English Language. We will accept English Literaturegrade A i you have grade B in English Language.

For school leavers

A-levels and AS-levelsApplicants should have studied at least our subjects atAS-level, and completed three A-level subjects withinthe usual two-year period o post-16 education. Ourtypical oer is AAA, including Biology and Chemistry,and grade B in a ourth subject at AS-level.

General Studies, Critical Tinking, Tinking Skillsand Applied Science are not accepted. I you areconsidering Further Maths, please see the most up-to-date inormation on our website at www.hyms.ac.uk/undergraduate/entry-requirements.aspx. All othersubjects are considered o equal merit as the thirdA-level. We welcome applicants who show evidence obreadth o interest, but a ourth subject at A-level willnot advantage you, and A* grades will not be includedin oers.

AQA Baccalaureateypical oer: AAA at A-level to include Biology andChemistry, and B in a ourth subject at AS-level, allcompleted within two years.

BEC

We do not normally accept the BEC NationalDiploma. Distinction in a single Level 3 BEC Award orCerticate will be accepted with A-levels in Chemistryand Biology.

Cambridge Pre-U Diplomaypical oer: Pass with D3 in three Principal Subjects/Global perspectives, including Biology and Chemistry.

DiplomaWe do not normally accept the Diploma.

European Baccalaureate DiplomaFinal overall mark o 85% (8.5), including Biology andChemistry with minimum grades o 8.5.

International Baccalaureateypical oer: a total o 36 points with grades o 6,6,5in three higher-level subjects including Chemistry andBiology.

Irish Leaving Certicateypical oer: AAAAAB at Higher level, includingA1 in both Chemistry and Biology, taken at the rstattempt.

Scottish Highersypical oer: AAAAB at Higher (H) level, includingBiology and Chemistry both at grade A, taken in a singleattempt in Secondary 5; and AA at Advanced Higher(AH) level Biology and Chemistry and an additionalHigher at grade A, taken in Secondary 6.

Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma (WBQ)ypical oer: Pass, plus AA grades in Biology andChemistry, and a third subject at A-level grade B,excluding General Studies and Critical Tinking.

Mitigating circumstances and resitsWe do not normally accept the results o resits taken ina third year o post-16 education. Where extenuatingcircumstances were communicated to sta at the

responsible educational establishment at the timewhen the examinations were taken, we will considerdocumented evidence o the circumstances aectingthe rst attempt, and then may agree to accept resits onan individual basis. Special consideration will normallyonly be given or temporary illness, accident or injury atthe time o assessment. Long-term illnesses which aectpreparation or an exam or perormance in an exam arenot eligible or special consideration.

International qualicationsRequirements in school-leaving examinations rommany other countries are shown atwww.hyms.ac.uk/undergraduate/entry-requirements.aspx.

For those other than school-leavers

We welcome applicants who have taken the UKCA,

apply through UCAS by the closing date, ull the GCSErequirements (above), and have proo o recent andappropriate knowledge o Biology and Chemistry via abiomedical sciences degree, by studying these subjectsto A-level, by taking an Access to Medicine course, orthrough the Open University.

Graduates should have at least upper second-classhonours in their rst degree and grades ABB at theirrst sitting o A-levels. Subsequent or higher degrees donot replace this entrance requirement.

Biomedical Science graduatesBiomedical Science graduates must have coveredsufcient Biology and Chemistry in their course.

Experienced health proessionalsCurrently practising health proessionals shouldhave at least ve years post-qualication experience.Tis includes nursing, optometry, radiography,physiotherapy, pharmacy and similar proessions.

All health proessionals and all other graduates willbe asked to provide evidence o recent knowledge o

Biology and Chemistry to A-level standard, through anAccess to Medicine course or the Open University, or byobtaining grade A at A-level.

Access coursesWe will consider applicants who are taking oneo the ollowing Access to Medicine courses ina single year, and have not previously taken Biology andChemistry A-levels:

City College, Norwich, College of West Anglia, Kings Lynn, Sussex Downs College, Lewes, Staord College and New College Telfor Foundation Course in Clinical Science/

Medicine, Bradord.

ypically our oer will require distinction

component o the course.Open University qualications120 points rom OU courses with Distinct1 courses and Pass II in level 2 or 3 courserom relevant OU courses listed at www.hundergraduate/entry-requirements.aspx.

English language requirementsAll applicants to HYMS are required to haGrade A in GCSE English Language or eqEnglish Language GCSE/IGCSE is our prqualication. However, we also accept:

IB score of 6 at the standard level in Eng(as a rst language), or

IELTs overall score of 7.5, with a minimuevery component obtained within the last

Resits are allowed, except in the case o IBwho may sit GCSE/IGCSE English Langualternative. I you have not achieved the restandard, we may make an oer based onresit o the same qualication. Please note

accept GCSE/IGCSE English as a Second

I our interviewers express concern aboutEnglish, we may also ask or an IELs oveo 7.5, with a minimum o 7.0 in every comobtained within the last two years.

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Health and disability

All oers o places are conditional upon a satisactoryoccupational health assessment. Applicants oereda place are required to return a completed healthquestionnaire to the HYMS occupational health serviceby the specied date beore the start o the course. Someapplicants may also be asked to undergo an independent

medical examination, and/or a skills assessment, beorethey can be registered on the course.

Blood-borne virusesTe Department o Health requires all medical studentsand doctors to be ree rom inection with HepatitisB, Hepatitis C and HIV viruses i they are to takepart in exposure-prone medical procedures. HYMSoccupational health services oer voluntary screeningor these viruses, along with a ree immunisationservice, to all medical students at the start o theircourse. Students who are inected, or who do not wishto be screened, can continue with their training but arenot allowed to assist in exposure-prone procedures andare unable to work in clinical areas where their inectioncould pose a risk to patients in their care.

ImmunisationsWe will tell you about immunisations at the timeo your interview. Te Department o Health andNHS institutions may issue specic requirements ontransmissible diseases rom time to time to reduce therisks to patients.

Applicants with disabilitiesWe welcome an application rom you i you have adisability or a serious medical condition. We believe thatyou can make a valuable contribution to the practiceo medicine, and were committed to supporting andadvising you in the application process.

All graduates are required to meet the outcomes o the

medical course as specied in the GMC documentomorrows Doctors (2009). Tereore, as with allpotential applicants, it is important beore you apply togain insight into the demands o a medical career, and arealistic understanding o the roles o a doctor.

You should also think careully about ways in whichyour particular situation might impact on patient care.In particular, you should think careully about whetherbeing a medical student might adversely aect your ownhealth, and about whether your condition could impairyour judgement or otherwise cause harm to patients,or instance by transmitting an inection. We stronglyadvise you to seek guidance about these issues beoreapplying, rom a consultant in occupational healthor another suitably qualied doctor (other than yournormal medical adviser).

We may request an occupational health assessmentbeore we make an oer, i any o these questions needaddressing more ully.

Rarely, we may decide that a disability or conditionmakes an applicant unsuitable to study medicine, on the

grounds o patient saety or inability to meet the GMCrequirements. Tis decision will only be taken aer ulldiscussion and consideration by the HYMS Fitness toPractise committee.

DyslexiaAnyone oered a place at HYMS who has special needsdue to dyslexia, or who has taken the extended versiono the UKCA because o dyslexia, should send aneducational psychologists report (or equivalent) withtheir occupational health questionnaire beore the starto the course. Tis report should be dated within the lastthree years i written beore the applicants 16th birthday,or within the last ve years i written when the applicantwas 16 or over. Students can contact the universityDisability Service at Hull or York (as appropriate) torequest a screening or dyslexia. Although additionaltime may be approved in written exams, it is veryunlikely to be allowed in clinical examinations.

Other requirements

All students must sign each year an AgreeConditions o Medical raining, which is in the month beore they register as a studuniversity. For the current version o this awww.hyms.ac.uk/undergraduate/beore-you-arrive.aspx.

Criminal recordsApplicants must inorm the HYMS AssocAdmissions in writing at the time o appliprior criminal charges or convictions, speincluding but not limited to cautions, reprnal warnings, bind-over orders or similapenalty notices, penalty notices or disordor VOOs. I an applicant incurs any o thesubmitting their application and starting tthey must inorm the Associate Dean or Aimmediately. Tis inormation will not beto UCAS orm assessors or interviewers anot aect the recommendation to oer a pthe oer will require the prior approval oFitness to Practise committee, aer ull decircumstances have been provided by the such a case, the HYMS Fitness to Practiseacting on behal o both universities and ain the HYMS area. All students are requiran enhanced disclosure check by the CrimBureau (CRB) at the time o registration wuniversity. I the CRB check discloses any

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HYMS aims to be air, open and transparent whenselecting applicants. Te ollowing criteria areconsidered:

academic ability, judged by prior academicperormance and, where appropriate, predictedacademic results,

evidence of motivation and reasons for working in

healthcare, evidence of a realistic understanding of healthcare

issues and practice, written and oral communication skills, and

teamworking skills, evidence of conscientiousness, self-motivation,

responsibility and appropriate maturity andcondence.

Selection is a two-stage process: scrutiny o all availableinormation leading to selection or interview, ollowedby interview or selected applicants. No places areoered without interview, which includes assessment oeach candidates suitability or a problem-based learningcourse and communication skills.

Assessment o UCAS orms

Te orm is scored by trained assessors against thecriteria dened above, using a standard scoringsystem with appropriate quality assurance. Academicachievement is only part o this assessment; non-academic actors are equally important. Te averageUCAS orm score or each candidate is considered in

the light o their UKCA score, and all candidates arethen ranked. Te top-scoring applicants are invitedor interview.

Interview

Each candidate is interviewed by at least two people, oneo whom is an experienced health proessional, withoutseeing their UCAS orm. All candidates are assessedon attributes that cannot be judged rom a writtenapplication. Further details can be ound atwww.hyms.ac.uk/admissions/.

Ranking or nal selectionCandidates are ranked again aer interview. Places areoered to the top-ranked candidates. For up-to-datedetails see www.hyms.ac.uk/admissions/.

Feedback

Feedback is given only to unsuccessul applicants, whomust request it in writing. As there are very many ableapplicants, most unsuccessul applicants have simplybeen surpassed in rank order by others. Te usualeedback provided is thereore the applicants numericalscore and position in the overall ranking.

Clearing

HYMS is unlikely to enter Clearing.

HYMS admission policy follows the Guiding Principles forthe Admission of Medical Students agreed by the Councilof Heads of Medical Schools (revised March 2010).

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Te universities o Hull and York are committed towidening access to higher education. We welcomeapplicants who bring diverse experiences to the medicalschool community, including older students andgraduates, and we encourage applicants to spend a gapyear either at work or travelling, in the UK or abroad.

We are closely involved in national and local initiativesto encourage the recruitment o potential doctors romall sectors o society. Our own Widening Participationprogramme includes a range o local projects to raisethe aspirations o young people in the regions schoolsand colleges, encouraging them to consider a careerin medicine. HYMS students have a central role asambassadors and role models in this programme,interacting with a wide range o young people.o nd out more about all our projects, seewww.hyms.ac.uk/about/widening-participation.aspx.

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Who is an international student?

Tis depends on your residential category. I you arerom outside the European Union and not a Britishcitizen, you are competing or one o the ten separatelyunded places or international students, who aredened as Overseas by their ee status. As part o ouradmission process, we review all UCAS applicants sel-selected Residential Category and then contact you lateri we require clarication. I you live anywhere in the EUor EEA, you must compete or one o the 130 places orHome students.

Why choose HYMS?

Studying medicine abroad is a big step, so we help youto settle in and make you eel at home. Our international

admissions assistant will advise and support you atevery stage o your application and in the early yearso the course. With only 70 rst-year medical studentson each campus, you all get to know each other withinthe rst ew weeks. You work in the same small group,meeting twice a week with two dierent tutors (PBLacilitator and clinical skills tutor), so you quickly getto know the school sta too. Your PBL acilitator is

also your personal adviser. You have riendly supportand assistance with non-academic matters rom theInternational Ofces o both Hull and York universities.

Admissions requirements

Competition or places is intense. You must havean excellent command o the English language andmeet the academic requirements and non-academicadmissions criteria as described on pages 5455. I youare invited or interview, this will normally take placein Hull or York at HYMS on one o the interview dates(shown in advance on www.hyms.ac.uk).

Accommodation

All international students are guaranteed university

accommodation in their rst year and given priority insubsequent years.

Maintaining international links

All our students have the chance to study abroadduring the elective period in Year 5. HYMS is activelydeveloping links with medical schools outside the UK.Te degree o MB BS (Hull York) is an EU-recognisedprimary medical qualication.

Fees

o check your ee status, see www.ukcisa.org.uk. EUstudents pay Home ees and may be eligible or loans.Further inormation can be ound atwww.direct.gov.uk/en/EducationAndLearning/. uitionees or Overseas students are xed at least twelvemonths in advance, and are liable to a small annualincrease. As an example, the tuition ee or entry in 2012

is 24,040. Up-to-date inormation is shown on www.hyms.ac.uk/undergraduate/international-students.aspx.You should allow between 8,000 and 10,000 a year tocover your living costs in the UK.

Meeting the HYMS international assistain our irst year was a real help: we had a nace, someone we could talk to about any concerning us. She gave us great advice ancomort in the irst ew weeks when we wconused! Were still great riends with hewe dont get to see her that oten. I would rHYMS to other students because I think io the best med schools in England! PBL aclinical exposure is a antastic combinatioup north is great everything is cheap anriendly.

Fatima Ahsan, Year 5 student from Pakis

We believe that students rom outside the UK bring valuableadditional experiences to the medical school.

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The map highlights the NHS region

associated with HYMS. Clinical placements

in the first two years of the course take

place close to Hull and York. During the

remaining three years, placements rotate

through a variety of settings centred

around Hull, Grimsby, Scarborough,

Scunthorpe and York.

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Te map shows the NHS area where you will beworking on placement. In your rst two years, yourclinical placements will be close to Hull and York.Aer that, your placements ollow a rota in a varietyo settings around Hull, Grimsby, Scarborough,Scunthorpe and York.

Te HYMS region

Applications

For admissions enquiries

telephone 01904 321690

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For the University o Hull prospectus


For the University o York prospectus


Student Recruitment and Admissions Service

Te University o HullHull HU6 7RXtelephone 01482 466100Te University o YorkHeslingtonYork YO10 5DDtelephone 01904 324000

For the latest developments at the Hull York MedicalSchool, visit www.hyms.ac.uk

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