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The Medical School. MBChB Medical Undergraduate Course. 2 The Medical School Undergraduate Courses Sheffield School of Medicine was founded in 1828, subsequently merging with Firth College (1879), and Sheffield Technical School (1884) to form University College Sheffield in 1897. The University of Sheffield was granted Royal Charter in May 1905. Contents Welcome 3 A great place to study 4 About our courses 6 A104: Pre-medical Year to Medicine 7 A100: Medicine 8 Course content 9 Mature applicants 12 Teaching and assesment 13 Our graduates 14 How to apply 16 What grades do I need? 17 What else do I need? 18 Our selection process 19 Support for you 20 Widening participation 22 A sense of our city 24 Our Union of Students 26 Accommodation 28 Open days 29 Your course at a glance 30 Contact us 31 The Medical School Undergraduate Courses 3 Welcome It is a real pleasure to introduce you to the University of Sheffield Medical School. Our aim is to provide innovative and high quality undergraduate teaching that is informed by the research background, scholarship and professional experience of the School staff. A new curriculum was introduced in 2003 which incorporated best teaching practice from around the world. This curriculum has been constantly refined since then and meets the goals set out in the General Medical Council’s recommendations Tomorrow’s Doctors 2009. We are also proud of the diversity of backgrounds that our students come from, and of their achievements after qualifying. Medical students in Sheffield benefit from the huge variety of clinical teaching which is available in or near to the city, and our size ensures that each student has friendly individual attention. Research within the School has been highly rated and such research ensures that our course is up to date. Students are encouraged to participate in research projects or to take an intercalated BMedSci degree during their course and there is ample opportunity for self directed study. As you will see from this prospectus, our students think Sheffield is a great place to study medicine – I am sure you will too! Professor A P Weetman Pro-Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health 4 The Medical School Undergraduate Courses The University A great has developed into one of the United place Kingdom’s leading to study research institutes. The School of Medicine at Sheffield has an international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. Our aim is to provide you with innovative and high quality teaching through staff who are experts in their field. You will benefit from the huge variety of clinical teaching which is available in or near to the city, and our size ensures that each student has friendly, individual attention. Medicine is the study of diseases affecting people. Its scope is vast, encompassing the causes, nature and treatment of disease. Our medical course offers a broadly based but extensive education and training programme, incorporating all the recommendations of the General Medical Council’s report Tomorrow’s Doctors. On successful completion of your studies, you will qualify with the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB). Our programme has been designed to equip you with the diverse range of clinical skills, knowledge, attitudes and professional behaviours needed to become a junior house doctor and will prepare you for your continued professional development after graduation. The Medical School Undergraduate Courses 5 6 The Medical School Undergraduate Courses About our courses We offer two study routes into the medical profession: Course aims Pre-medical Year to Medicine (UCAS code A104) Our course aims to: This is a six year degree programme, designed for candidates • Equip you with the essential personal and professional who have taken mainly Arts subjects at A Level, or graduates skills required throughout your course, and in your future who have studied non-science subjects. The first year is careers. an intensive course in Sciences, which is delivered at the • Offer an integration of basic and clinical sciences recently built Sheffield College, Hillsborough, (about 2.5 throughout. miles from the University). Successful completion of the • Cultivate an attitude of curiosity and desire for intellectual pre-medical year enables automatic progression to the exploration, and critical evaluation. A100 degree programme. Patient-focused learning Medicine (UCAS code A100) This is a five year degree programme for candidates who Our comprehensive medical curriculum incorporates what meet our science pre-requisites. All teaching is delivered you need to know, understand, and be able to do, in order at the University of Sheffield, and includes wide clinical to respond to a range of health problems in a diverse range experience at teaching hospitals in and around Sheffield. of health care settings. All learning and teaching should be thought of from the perspective of the patient. The medical degree at Sheffield has been designed with this patient-focus at the heart of its philosophy. Clinically led approach Our courses are clinically led and give you the opportunity to start developing your clinical skills from the very start. They are designed around common and important clinical conditions and use an integrated learning and teaching How should I talk to this this patient approach that relates clinical medicine to the underlying and family? medical sciences. Communication Skills What effects and guides our Why do they think relationships? they are ill? Professional behaviours, The patient’s perception personal skills, and understanding of interpersonal their illness relationships Patient How do I know my advice is the best? Why is the patient ill? The evaluation and use The biological basis of of evidence in clinical illness and how to detect practice and monitor it Is the illness part of a pattern? Epidemiological and public health issues The Medical School Undergraduate Courses 7 A104: Pre-medical Year to Medicine Our Pre-medical Year is run in conjunction with Sheffield in the Pre-medical Year have access to the full facilities College, and all teaching is delivered at a local college site. at Sheffield College, as well as those of the University of The Pre-medical Year is a modified Access to Science course, Sheffield. which has been tailored to give students with a non-scientific background the necessary basic knowledge to undertake the Applications must be made through UCAS for the A104 medical course. course at the University of Sheffield, and not directly to Sheffield College. During the course you will visit local hospitals to see the clinical relevance of the sciences you are studying. The course is open to students who have A Level grades of AAA in Arts subjects, or a 2:1 in a non-science degree. Students “As a Sheffield graduate, there was only one place I was going to apply when I decided that I would like to change direction and train to become a doctor. After many years in the workplace, I was concerned that I would find returning to study a challenge. I needn’t have worried, as the Pre-medical Year is structured in such a way that it offers excellent general support to those returning to study in general, and a superb introduction to the medical sciences in particular. Nearly two years on from completing the Pre-medical Year, not a day goes by where I do not draw directly or indirectly from the knowledge I acquired on this part of the MBChB course. The Year was also a great opportunity to get to know other students from a variety of backgrounds, and many very good friendships were made during this rewarding period.” John Barker Pre-Medical Student 8 The Medical School Undergraduate Courses A100: Medicine The discovery of Vitamin D by Sir Edward Mellanby, (Professor of Physiology at Sheffield) led to the eradication of rickets. Our Medical degree programme is divided into four distinct Phases: Phase 1: Introductory Clinical Competence The first two years of the Medical course cover much of the basic medical sciences that underpin medicine and introduce students to clinical practice. Phase 2: Basic Clinical Competence A detailed introduction to clinical skills and clinical practice, integrated with two nine-week clinical team attachments in Sheffield and surrounding districts. Phase 3: Extended Clinical Competence Two-years of clinical based study, involving primary and secondary care of patients with an emphasis on ‘hands on’ medicine. Phase 4: Advanced Clinical Competence Preparation for becoming a first year (FY1) foundation doctor. The Medical School Undergraduate Courses 9 Course content Phase I: Introductory Clinical hospital wards, operating theatres Competence and outpatients to make contact with patients. You are now a real trainee Phase I aims to equip you with the doctor – and this is what you came to basic medical science knowledge that Medical School to do. is crucial to sound medical practice. Subject disciplines such as Anatomy, Phase II starts with an introduction Physiology and Biochemistry, are to basic clinical skills. You will spend presented in an integrated way within a period of time in the Clinical Skills the relevant body system under study. Laboratories and hospital wards, For example, in the cardiovascular talking to patients (taking histories) system module, the structure, function, and examining the major body systems pathology and metabolism of the heart (physical examination). Some technical will be studied. In addition, aspects of skills, such as venepuncture (taking a Public Health, Ethics and other relevant blood sample) are also covered at this topics are integrated into the course stage. through the Medicine and Society module. There are two nine-week clinical team attachments, during which you will Learning is by practical classes be attached to consultants working in (including dissection of the human Sheffield and surrounding districts.