Medicine and Surgery(AcceleratedProgramme)MB BS Honours

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Medicine andSurgery(AcceleratedProgramme)MB BS HonoursUCAS code A1014 Years

This four-year accelerated programme isdesigned for graduates of any discipline whowish to train as a doctor, and others whoseprior professional experience qualifies them forentry.

Our accelerated degree enables you to complete thesyllabus of years 1 and 2 of our five-year programme in oneextended academic year (45 weeks).

During year 1, you learn through case-led teaching, withclinical cases used to ensure a problem-first, task-basedfocus.

You are allocated to a small study group, led by a seniormedical tutor who provides support and guidancethroughout the year.

Following completion of the extended year 1, you areintegrated into a common pathway alongsideundergraduate students on our five-year course.

Medicine at Newcastle is consistently one of the most highlyregarded medical degrees in the UK. The excellence of ourprogrammes has been confirmed by the General MedicalCouncil (GMC).

Highlights of this degreeQuality and rankingMedicine at Newcastle is consistently one of the mosthighly regarded medical degrees in the UK.

The excellence of our programmes has been confirmed bythe General Medical Council (GMC).

We are ranked:

• 5th in the UK - The Guardian University Guide 2019• 8th in the UK – The Times/Sunday Times Good

University Guide 2018• top 125 – Clinical, Pre-clinical and Health category

– Times Higher Education World University Rankings bySubject 2018

• top 150 – Medicine category – QS World UniversityRankings by Subject 2018

• 93% overall student satisfaction score – NationalStudent Survey 2017 (Subjects Allied to Medicinecategory)

• 9th in the UK – Research Excellence Framework 2014(Clinical Medicine category)

Professional accreditation*This degree is professionally accredited by the GeneralMedical Council (GMC).

*All professional accreditations are reviewed regularly bytheir professional body.

Studying Medicine at NewcastleMedicine at Newcastle combines university-based learningand clinical placements in the NHS.

We offer a very high quality learning experience andconsistently rank as one of the most highly regardedmedical degrees in the UK. At Newcastle you will:

• develop your core knowledge and skills in ourwell-equipped, city-centre Medical School

• work with NHS professionals and patients on clinicalplacements during years 3, 4 and 5

• experience contact with patients from year 1• tailor your degree to your interests with student-selected

components and an elective in year 4• take a year of intercalated study to gain another degree

in addition to your MB BS (optional)

You will develop the key skills of communication, informationhandling, reasoning, judgement, reflective practice anddecision-making. Medical ethics is also a strong theme inthe curriculum.

Find out more in the Course Details section.

Facilities and supportOur Medical School at Newcastle is a Regional MedicalSchool and has partnerships with the Northern Region NHS.It gives you access to excellent clinical training opportunitiesoffered by the large patient population (3.5 million) and theregion-wide infrastructure of acute hospitals and generalpractices.

The degree is delivered by the University's School of MedicalEducation.

FacilitiesYou will have access to:

• extensive specialist medical library• a Clinical Skills and Anatomy Laboratory• dedicated computer clusters with online study guides

that include interactive assessment tools• Anatomy and Clinical Skills Centres, in Newcastle and

throughout the region, which include patient simulators,dissecting rooms and clinical skills laboratories

SupportWe recognise there are a number of times in which you willneed to make transitions from one phase of learning toanother.

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To help support you in this, we offer a peer-mentoringscheme that partners all new students with a student fromyear 2 to help make the transition to University life.

Additionally, you can access specialist careers advice fromundergraduate level through to foundation training, to helpyou move confidently from student to doctor.

Social activitiesThere are a number of student societies associated withmedicine to help you settle in and meet students from allyears on an informal basis.

Find out moreTake a virtual tour of the Medical School on the NewcastleUniversity website.

Watch videos about the first two years of study, researchand the city of Newcastle

Our dedicated student services building, King's Gate.

Course Details

Modules for 2017 entry

Please noteThe programme information below is for 2017 entry.Programmes may be amended on an annual basis to takeaccount of changing staff expertise, developments in thediscipline, the requirements of external bodies and partners,and student feedback.

Programme information for 2018 entry will be publishedhere as soon as it is available (mid-May 2018).

Our degrees are divided into Years. Each Year lasts for anacademic year.

About this degree

The accelerated programme is four years long.

Year 1 spans 45 weeks: your course of study will provideyou with an experience separate from, but equivalent to,years 1 and 2 of the five-year MB BS course.

Years 2, 3 and 4 are the same as years 3, 4 and 5 of thefive-year programme. They include significant clinicalexperience and place further emphasis on professionaldevelopment, student choice, and hospital- andcommunity-based medicine.

Year 1Spanning 45 weeks, this Phase will provide you with anexperience separate from, but equivalent to, years 1 and 2of the five-year MB BS course.

Teaching and learning is organised into small study groupsand is structured around the clinical cases covered in years1 and 2 of the five-year course.

The cases facilitate integration of knowledge, skills andprofessional behaviours, across a range of disciplines andsubject areas.

For example, a case of stroke can be used to learn andteach the nervous system, cardiovascular system, clinicalskills, pharmacology, public health and communicationskills.

Clinical experiencePeople as ‘patients’ play an active role in year 1 and youcan come into contact with them from the very beginningthrough teaching sessions, visits to local hospitals,community placements and general practice.

During year 1 students can take up the opportunity to gainadditional early clinical experience by selecting from ourbank of clinical experiences. Before the end of the year,there is a block of time dedicated to preparing you for

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clinical-based learning, which offers opportunities toenhance your knowledge and skills through additionalclinical experiences and patient contact.

Years 2, 3 and 4You are integrated into a single common pathway alongsidestudents on our five-year course.

You spend years 2, 3 and 4 in one of four Clinical BaseUnits in the region.

Year 2During year 2 you undertake a course of integrated medicalpractice, followed by a series of integrated placements,including time spent in primary care.

The placements are:

• child and adolescent health (6 weeks)• medicine, surgery and community (6 weeks)• mental health (6 weeks)• women's health (6 weeks)

This is followed by four weeks of a student-selectedcomponent.

Year 3In Semester 1 you complete 12 weeks of clinical decisionmaking, which runs in parallel with a student selectedcomponent.

Semester 2 comprises eight-week placements in long-termconditions and medicine and surgery.

Following this, you’ll also have the opportunity to spend atotal of eight weeks studying medicine in another healthcaresetting, which may be either at home or abroad.

Year 4Year 4 is the time for you to consolidate your learning andspend time undertaking assistantships in order to prepareyou for clinical work and the Foundation Programme. Duringthe year you will undertake clinical placements in thefollowing specialties:

• child and adolescent health• primary care• mental health• women's health• critical care

Clinical placementsYou spend years 3, 4 and 5 in one of four Clinical BaseUnits in the region. You may be based in a different regionalBase Unit in the different years as we believe that it isimportant that you experience the wide range of clinicalopportunities available throughout the region. These are:

Northumbria Base Unit• Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust• North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust• Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

Tyne Base Unit• Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust• Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

• Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

Wear Base Unit• City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust• South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust• County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust• Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

Tees Base Unit• South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust• North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust• County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust• Tees, Esk, Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust

Each Base Unit also comprises a significant number ofGeneral Practices where you will spend time during all yearsof the course.

Find out more about our Clinical Base Units on the Medicineat Newcastle website.

Student-selected components / ElectiveYou have the flexibility to choose which topics you studythrough the student-selected component (SSC)programme, which runs throughout the course.

You complete one SSC placement in year 3 and a secondin year 4, which runs in parallel with the ClinicalDecision-Making course.

Some examples of student-selected topics availableinclude:

• care of newborn babies• neurosurgery• medical law• complementary medicine• tropical diseases• accident and emergency medicine and paramedic

attachment• wilderness and survival medicine

At the end of year 4 you undertake an eight-week electiveplacement. This gives you the opportunity to studymedicine, either at home or abroad and gain hands-onexperience of a different healthcare system. Find out moreabout outgoing electives on the Medicine at Newcastlewebsite.

Intercalated StudyOur medical students have the opportunity to enrich theirpersonal and professional development further by takingtime out of their medical studies to pursue an intercalateddegree.

Intercalation provides an opportunity to study a subject thatinterests and excites you as well as develop newperspectives on healthcare delivery, research andeducation.

We offer a broad range of Biomedical Science BSc degreesand Masters degrees that cover all aspects of medicalpractice.

We encourage you to develop skills that will be usefulthroughout your future career and offer options to undertakeyour own research project.

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Newcastle is recognised as a leader in a number of areas ofresearch including ageing research and applied stem cellbiology.

We also have state-of-the-art facilities for clinical research,developed in partnership with NHS trusts.

Students who do not wish to take an additional year ofstudy will still have opportunities to benefit from ourresearch expertise through Student-Selected Components(SSCs) and the summer research scholarship scheme.

Find out more about intercalated study on the Faculty ofMedical Sciences website.

Teaching StyleMedicine is taught in different ways by different institutions.Understanding the ways in which you learn best will helpyou to decide which style of learning will suit your needs.

Case-ledYou receive case-led teaching in your first two years, whichmeans using clinical cases to help you make the linksbetween your new knowledge and clinical practice.

Early clinical experienceYou undertake a varied menu of early clinical experience,through contact with patients and visits to general practiceand hospitals, giving you a clinical context on which todevelop your core knowledge.

We begin teaching clinical skills from as early as week 2 inour Clinical Skills Laboratory. Here, a team of SpecialtyTrainees provide structured learning and teaching, whichincludes:

• venesection• examination skills• CPR

On completion of your degreeYou will receive an MB BS degree from Newcastle Universityand currently, graduates are eligible to apply for provisionalregistration with the General Medical Council (GMC).However, the GMC are currently reviewing legislation andyou should be aware this may be different in the future.

Currently, all UK medical graduates are required tocomplete a two-year Foundation Programme of generalclinical training.

The majority of our students decide to apply to Foundationposts within the region. There are sufficient FoundationProgramme places in the Northern Region for the majority ofmedical graduates.

International students are currently permitted toundertake the full Foundation Programme, ie the first twoyears following graduation, but you are normally required toreturn to your home country to complete further specialitytraining.

Entry Requirements

All candidates are considered on an individual basis.

If your qualifications are not listed here, please see ouradditional entry requirements web pages to find out whichother qualifications are considered.

The entrance requirements below apply to 2019 entry.

Important Information for All StudentsPlease note: This programme is not open tointernational applicants.

This course is designed for graduates of any discipline, andfor others who have relevant experience which includes asubstantial amount of contact with patients gained as anestablished health care professional within the NHS orequivalent body (eg RGN, RMN, Physiotherapist) with aqualification recognised by a statutory body. Onlycandidates classed as 'home' students for fees purposeswill be eligible to apply for this course.

Applicants must have achieved, or expect to achieve, atleast an upper second class Honours degree, or integratedMaster's degree, or be a practising health care professionalwith a post-registration qualification. All applicants will beexpected to provide evidence of sustained academicendeavour within the last three years - eg A Level study,Open University, GAMSAT - prior to the start of theprogramme.

GCSEs, A Levels and Masters qualificationsPlease note: A Level and GCSE results for graduateapplicants will have no direct bearing on the decision tointerview or offer a place. This also applies for Mastersqualifications.

UKCATAll applicants to the 4 year A101 Medicine programme atNewcastle University will be required to take the UK ClinicalAptitude Test (UKCAT).

The UKCAT threshold may differ in each admissions cycleas it is dependent on the scores achieved by thoseapplicants who apply to our Medical School in the currentcycle. Therefore information on what the threshold is, is notavailable to prospective students. Detailed information canbe found in the MBBS Admissions Policy 2019 (619 KB).

Candidates who are considered, on the basis of theirapplication and UKCAT, to be particularly promising areinterviewed. Some evidence of work experience in ahealthcare or social care setting would be expected fromapplicants who do not have prior healthcare experience.

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Health Assessment and DisclosureAll students are required to comply with the Department ofHealth’s guidance on health clearance for healthcareworkers. Early clinical contact at Newcastle means thatstudents will be asked to provide proof of their immunisationstatus on entry.

Please note: Immunity against the following is required:

• Polio• Tetanus• Varicella (Chicken Pox)• Diphtheria• Measles• Mumps• Rubella• TB

Newcastle University follows the Medical Schools Councilprotocol on blood-borne viruses. During the coursestudents will be requested to be tested for Hepatitis B;Hepatitis C and HIV. All aspects of a student’s medicalrecord will be bound by the same duty of confidentiality asfor any doctor-patient interaction and informed by the sameethical guidance.

The status of any individual in respect of blood-borne viruseswill not be a factor in the admissions selection process andwill not prevent them completing medical training. For furtherinformation see MSC Guidance.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checksAll medical schools are required to ensure that theirstudents, who will have a high level of unsupervised contactwith children or vulnerable adults, undergo a Disclosure andBarring Service (DBS) enhanced check to ensure studentsare 'fit to practise'. The Medical School reserves the right todiscontinue your studies on receipt of an unsatisfactorydisclosure.

For more informationDetailed information can be found in the MBBSAdmissions Policy on the admissions page of the MedicalSchool website.

English Language RequirementsApplicants whose first language is not English requirea minimum score of IELTS 7.0 or equivalent including7.0 in each of the four elements of the test.

If you need help to meet our English Languagerequirements, we can provide support with extra tuition.

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Other International QualificationsABB at A level is typically the minimum required for entry toan undergraduate course. You can check the equivalentgrades for qualifications offered in your country.

We will also consider your application if you have lower ornon-standard qualifications.

Undergraduate Admissions Policy

See our 2018 Admissions Policy (PDF: 185 KB).

See further policies related to admission.

Careers

Medicine and surgery careersAfter completing your University degree, you are currentlyeligible to apply for provisional registration with the GMC with a licence to practise, subject to demonstrating to theGMC that your fitness to practise is not impaired. However,the GMC are currently reviewing legislation and you shouldbe aware this may be different in the future.

Once you have successfully completed a year as an F1doctor in a two-year Foundation Programme you shouldgain full registration. See GMC registration and NationalExaminations for further details. This is followed by a furtheryear of generic training.

All doctors, regardless of their speciality, must continuelearning throughout their career, and our degree has beendesigned with this long-term aim in mind.

Find out more about the career options for Medicine andSurgery from Prospects: The UK's Official Careers Website.

What our graduates go on to do:employment and further studychoicesSee what our recent graduates went on to do and viewgraduate destinations statistics. These statistics are basedon what graduates were doing on a specific date,approximately six months after graduation. Take a look atthe most recent data available for our graduates.

The destination data is available in varying levels, beginningwith the University and moving through Faculty and Schooldown to individual course reports. This final level may giveyou some useful ideas about possible options after yourcourse or a course you are considering.

Careers and employability atNewcastleNewcastle University consistently has one of the bestrecords for graduate employment in the UK.

95% of our 2016 UK-domiciled graduates progressedto employment or further study within six months ofgraduating.

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Of our graduates who entered employment more than threequarters (78%) achieved a professional or managerialposition.

We provide an extensive range of opportunities to allstudents through an initiative called ncl+. This enables youto develop personal, employability and enterprise skills andto give you the edge in the employment market after yougraduate.

Our award-winning Careers Service is one of the largest andbest in the country, and we have strong links withemployers.

Fees & Funding

Tuition Fees (UK and EU students)

2019 entry:Tuition fees for 2019-20 have not yet been confirmed.2018 entry*:£9,250 in 2018-19Currently, students studying on the four-year acceleratedMedicine course for graduates have their tuitionfees part-funded by the NHS in years two, three and four.NHS funding for 2018 is yet to be confirmed.Some of our degrees involve additional costs which arenot covered by your tuition fees.*Please note:The maximum fee that we are permitted to charge for UKand EU students is set by the UK government.As a general principle, you should expect the tuition fee toincrease in each subsequent academic year of yourcourse, subject to government regulations on feeincreases and in line with inflation.Newcastle University has guaranteed that EU studentsentering our University in 2018 will pay the UK (Home)rate of fee for the full duration of their programme ofstudy.See more information on all aspects of studentfinance relating to Newcastle University.

Tuition Fees (International students)

This programme is not open to international applicants.

Scholarships and Financial Support (UK and EUstudents)

You may be eligible for one of a range of NewcastleUniversity Scholarships in addition to government financialsupport.Newcastle University ScholarshipsGovernment financial support

Scholarships and Financial Support(International students)

This programme is not open to international applicants.

Apply

Applying to Newcastle Universitythrough UCASTo apply for undergraduate study at Newcastle you mustuse the online application system managed by theUniversities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).

UCAS codes for Newcastle University

• institution name - NEWC• institution code - N21

UCAS buzzwordAsk your teacher or adviser from your school or college forthe UCAS buzzword. You need the buzzword when youregister on the Apply system. This makes it clear whichschool or college you are applying from.

All UK schools and colleges and a small number of EU andinternational establishments are registered with UCAS.

If you are applying independently, or are applying from aschool or college which is not registered to manageapplications, you will still use the Apply system. You will notneed a buzzword.

Making your applicationOn the UCAS website you can also find out more about:

• application deadlines and other important dates• offers and tracking your application

Application decisions and enquiriesFind out more about our admissions process and who tocontact if you need help with your application.