Medicine

Our goal is to educate 'The UCL Doctor'. This is a highly capable and patient-centred clinician, equipped to practise medicine in a professional, inclusive, and sustainable way grounded in science and best practice.

Our six-year programme comprises a series of core systems-based modules and clinical placements designed to prepare you for clinical practice and enable you to achieve the competencies set out in the General Medical Council’s ‘Outcomes for Graduates’.

In Years 1 and 2, you will learn the fundamentals of clinical science through systems-based modules. Year 3 provides the opportunity to develop your academic and research skills in an intercalated BSc of your choice. Years 4 and 5 are placement-based in hospitals, GP Practices and community providers in and around London. Year 6 provides the opportunity to consolidate your clinical knowledge and skills in a 20-week DGH and Primary Care assistantship, an eight-week elective anywhere in the world, and a period of Preparation for Practice to ensure you are fully prepared to start your Foundation Year training.

Clinical and Professional Practice modules run throughout the programme and Student Selected Components are offered in some years.

You will have extensive clinical contact throughout the course, with patients, doctors and other healthcare professionals, to learn all about key health problems, clinical presentations, and patient pathways.

UK graduates are exempt from the intercalated BSc and will complete the programme in five years. Other students will study the course over six years, leading to the awards of Bachelor of Science (BSc) and Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS).