YOUR JOURNEY TO BECOMING AN EXCEPTIONAL DOCTOR STARTS HERE

MEDICINE Undergraduate Prospectus 2022 INTRODUCING HULL YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL INTRODUCING HULL YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL WHAT WE LOOK FOR

A PASSION FOR HEALTHCARE, AND A DESIRE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

AAA BBC-ABB UCAT A LEVELS A LEVELS In year of application Including Biology and Including Biology and Chemistry Chemistry for the A100 five- for the A101 six-year Medicine year Medicine programme* With a Gateway Year programme**

*See p44-48 for full details of our entry requirements and alternative/contextual offers **Additional Widening Participation criteria apply – see p44 for details

WHAT WE OFFER

CONFIDENT, 2 PROGRAMMES DESIGNED TO INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION OF DOCTORS COMPASSIONATE, PLACEMENTS PROVIDED BY PROBLEM BASED CLINICAL EXCEPTIONAL LEARNING PLACEMENTS + FACILITATED BEGIN IN WEEK BY CLINICIANS DOCTORS GP SURGERIES

UNIVERSITIES, ACUTE MENTAL ARE MADE HERE HEALTH TWICE NHS TRUST THE PARTNERS PROVIDER EXPERTISE PARTNERS Welcome to Hull York Medical School, home of exceptional medical education and a modern, innovative undergraduate medicine programme.

We are committed not just to training doctors, but to training brilliant doctors, who are equipped with the skills, agility and resilience they need to deliver excellent patient-centred care in an ever-changing MB BS DEGREE AWARDED JOINTLY healthcare environment. If you share our passion for BY THE UNIVERSITY OF HULL AND making a difference, take a closer look… THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK

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CONTENTS

HULL YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL WELCOME TO HULL YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL

6 OUR STORIES: A DIFFERENT DR KATHERINE HARRIS A DIFFERENT KIND OF MEDICAL SCHOOL 8 Two programmes delivering KIND OF exceptional medical training 10 A pioneering partnership designed to make a difference MEDICAL SCHOOL STUDYING WITH US 12 Delivering exceptional medical education 14 Early and sustained clinical experience 16 A different way of learning 20 A closer look at your first year 22 Measuring your progress 24 A support network to help you succeed

26 OUR STORIES: DR SCOT RICHARDSON

EXPLORING YOUR INTERESTS Welcome to Hull York Medical School: I studied medicine in the 1980s, and my 28 Tailoring your experience the joint medical school of the career has taken me from a hospital Universities of Hull and York, and environment into clinical and academic 30 Electives home to our exciting and innovative general practice, as well as leading 32 Our research is transforming lives undergraduate Medicine and Medicine research teams seeking to improve With a Gateway Year programmes. cancer diagnosis, treatment and care. LIFE AT HULL YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL While continuing to practise as a GP, it 34 An unforgettable experience The COVID-19 pandemic has is also my privilege to be Dean of Hull 36 Welcome to our campuses demonstrated more strongly than ever York Medical School, with responsibility that modern healthcare is challenging, for ensuring that you are equipped with 38 A place to call home complex, and ever-evolving. At Hull York the skills needed to pursue your own 40 OUR STORIES: Medical School, we pride ourselves on successful career path, whatever area KOMALPREET KAUR producing confident, compassionate of medicine you ultimately choose to and work-ready doctors, whose training, specialise in. From surgery to psychiatry, ADMISSIONS AND OFFERS grounded in patient-centred care, has general practice to paediatrics and 42 Planning your application armed them with the medical knowledge, beyond, your experience here will empathy and resilience they need not only allow you to explore your interests, 43 Widening participation to thrive as doctors but to make a positive and stand you in good stead for a 44 Key facts difference to the lives of their patients. long and impactful career delivering 46 Our selection procedure exceptional care. As a student here, you will experience 48 Making our offers sustained clinical contact with real I look forward to welcoming you on the 49 Fees and funding patients from the very beginning of your Your experience here first step of your career as a doctor. 50 After you graduate programme; benefit from a bespoke will allow you to explore learning environment based around small Professor Una Macleod, group study and extensive contact time Dean, Hull York Medical School, your interests, and stand with senior clinicians; and have access to and GP you in good stead for the very best facilities that the Universities a long and impactful of Hull and York have to offer. career delivering exceptional care.

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I always knew I wanted to help people. My favourite thing about the Hull York asI studied a Biology, Chemistrydoctor and English programme was the more interactive at A Level and while my teachers were teaching style (I couldn’t sit through very supportive, I was the first person lectures all day!), which means that you from my comprehensive school to apply apply what you learn in PBL or teaching for medicine in ten years, so they didn’t sessions to your clinical placement have all the connections and knowledge the same week. It really puts your that other schools might have. learning into perspective. I also liked the focus on the patient experience and So I arranged some work experience communication skills. I felt quite anxious in a maternity ward and at a hospice, at 18 about speaking to patients, so it was and really enjoyed it. good to get as much practice as possible from week three of the programme.

I found Hull York Medical School a lot more collaborative than some of the more traditional Students tudents reallyr medical schools. support each other and youy feel valued I am now a Junior A&E doctor at Aintree University Hospital. What I find most I found Hull York Medical School a lot rewarding about medicine is the human more collaborative than some of the more interaction, trying to make someone’s traditional medical schools. Students very stressful time less stressful. I’m proud really support each other, and you feel of what I do as a doctor. valued. I spent my first two years in York, living in halls of residence with a mix of Dr Katherine Harris, medicine and non-medicine students, Junior A&E Doctor at Aintree University which was a real bonding experience – Hospital, Class of 2018 I’m still really close with those friends.

I also lived in NHS accommodation while Hear Katherine’s story on placement in Hull, Scarborough and and more alumni stories Scunthorpe during my clinical years. at hyms.ac.uk/stories

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TWO PROGRAMMES DELIVERING EXCEPTIONAL MEDICAL TRAINING

FIVE-YEAR MEDICINE PROGRAMME When you choose to study at Our five-year Medicine programme (six years if you choose Hull York Medical School, you to intercalate – see p28) has a maximum annual intake of 220 are choosing a different kind UK and 11 international students. It combines patient-centred teaching, clinician-led problem-based learning, rigorous of undergraduate programme. academic study and regular clinical experience from week three Innovative, distinctive, and of your first year. Our standard offer for this programme is AAA specifically designed to meet including Biology and Chemistry at A Level (see p44-48 for full the challenges of 21st century details of our entry requirements and selection procedure, as healthcare, our programmes truly well as our alternative and contextual offers). prepare you for real life SIX-YEAR MEDICINE WITH as a junior doctor. A GATEWAY YEAR PROGRAMME Our six-year Medicine With a Gateway Year programme (seven years if you choose to intercalate – see p28) is a Widening Participation initiative, designed to encourage applicants from Learn more underrepresented backgrounds to study Medicine. It has a hyms.ac.uk/undergraduate maximum annual intake of 30 UK students, and follows the hyms.ac.uk/gateway exact same curriculum as the five-year programme, but includes an additional year at the start. This gateway year focuses on facilitating your transition from school or college to university, and bringing your scientific knowledge and skills up to the required standard to progress onto year 1 of the above five-year programme. Our standard offer for this programme is BBC including B grades in Biology and Chemistry at A Level, but you must meet a number of additional widening participation criteria to be eligible to apply – see p44-48 for full details of our entry requirements and selection procedure. As Director of the Medicine programme, At the end of your studies on either the five or six-year it is my job to ensure that you graduate from programme, you will have developed the confidence, Hull York Medical School with an in-depth competency and patient-centred skills to graduate. You will knowledge of all the relevant sciences, a be ready to enter the workforce as a junior doctor with an MB sensitive understanding of people, and the BS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) degree, ability to communicate effectively as part awarded jointly by the Universities of Hull and York. More of a multidisciplinary team. I am incredibly information about what happens after you graduate can be proud of our community of expert clinical found on p50. and PBL tutors, programme coordinators and support staff, whose commitment to exceptional medical education will ensure you develop the skills you need to deliver LEARN TO PROBLEM WE’VE DELIVER BASED ADDED outstanding care to your future patients. CARE WITH LEARNING OVER CONFIDENCE FACILITATED DOCTORS TO THE AND EMPATHY BY CLINICIANS NHS WORKFORCE Dr Paul Docherty, Interim MB BS 8 Medicine Undergraduate Prospectus 2022 Programme Director hyms.ac.uk 9 MIDDLESBROUGH A D I F F E R E N T K I N D O F M E D I C A L S C H O O L A D I F F E R E N T K I N D O F M E D I C A L S C H O O L JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL A PIONEERING PARTNERSHIP DESIGNED TO MAKE NORTHALLERTON A DIFFERENCE FRIARAGE SCARBOROUGH SCARBOROUGHHUMBER, HOSPITAL HOSPITAL COAST AND VALE SUSTAINABILITY AND TRANSFORMATION PARTNERSHIP A BREADTH OF TWO UNIVERSITIES, Hull York Medical School CLINICAL EXPERIENCE TWICE THE EXPERTISE YORK TO EDINBURGH 2HRS 24MINS was established in 2003 as As a student at Hull York Medical School Our unique university partnership means a partnership between the you will benefit from our strong local that during the first two years of the and regional partnerships, which allow five-year programme you will be based Universities of Hull and York, you to experience a unique breadth of at either the University of Hull or the and our local NHS Trusts. clinical placements over the course of University of York, before embarking on We have expanded over the your studies. Our partnerships with NHS a series of clinical placements around years, and now partner with Trusts, community organisations and GP the region from your third year onwards. more GP surgeries and NHS practices across the region enable us to Regardless of your initial location, you will BRIDLINGTON YORK Trusts than ever before, but our provide placements in a wide range of follow the exact same curriculum, have HOSPITAL locations, from busy urban GP practices access to the same facilities, expertise and commitment to collaboration, and major trauma centres serving densely placement opportunities, and graduate YORK shared expertise and a belief populated areas, to mental healthcare with the same degree qualification. More that our training should make providers, and rural and coastal information about campus allocation can a difference to our surrounding community services. You can read more be found on p34. communities remains constant. about how we deliver clinical placements at each stage of our programmes on SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES p14, but these diverse opportunities will AND SUPPORTING THE NHS

YORK TO MANCHESTER HULL TO MAINLAND EUROPE provide you with an invaluable insight into We are incredibly proud of our strong 1HR 18MINS a broad range of patient demographics, partnerships with local NHS Trusts enabling you to build your resilience HULL TO MANCHESTER HULL and primary care providers. These 1HR 54MINS and adaptability while learning from partnerships allow us to remain abreast VIA HUMBERSIDE senior clinicians in a variety of of local and national workforce needs, medical specialisms. AIRPORT 1HR UNIVERSITIES, and serve our communities by inspiring CASTLE HILL HOSPITAL TWICE the next generation of doctors and undertaking research which will impact LEEDS THE EXPERTISE local, regional and national health agendas - transforming the lives of HULL ROYAL patients in our communities. INFIRMARY ACUTE NHS Learn more SCUNTHORPE TRUST hyms.ac.uk/partners PARTNERS SCUNTHORPE GENERAL HOSPITAL GRIMSBY MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER As Clinical Dean for Hull York Medical School at York Teaching Hospital NHS PARTNERS Foundation Trust, it is my job to oversee the delivery of Hull York Medical School’s training at our hospital sites in York and Scarborough. I am passionate DIANA, about the future of medicine in our region, and really enjoy meeting PLACEMENTS PROVIDED BY YORK TO LONDON TO YORK 1HR 48MINS LONDON HULL TO 2HRS 30MINS PRINCESS and encouraging the medical workforce of the future. OF WALES HOSPITAL Dr Vijay Jayagopal, Clinical Dean, Hull York Medical School; + Consultant endocrinologist at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and regional advisor for diabetes to the Royal College of Physicians GP SURGERIES

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Learn more YOUR MEDICINE JOURNEY hyms.ac.uk/mbbscurriculum hyms.ac.uk/gateway

MEDICINE WITH A GATEWAY YEAR PROGRAMME ONLY

Our six-year Medicine With a Gateway Year five-year medicine programme. programme is a Widening Participation The gateway year offers hands-on learning initiative, designed to increase access to opportunities in our anatomy labs and Medicine for those from underrepresented through clinical placement experiences, as backgrounds. On this programme, your well as modules on human biology, clinical first year of study will focus on facilitating skills, professionalism and ethics, health your transition from school or college to and society, and medical scholarship. More university, and bringing your scientific details about the Medicine With a Gateway knowledge and skills up to the required Year programme, including eligibility and standard to progress onto year 1 of the entry requirements, can be found on p44.

On successful completion of the Gateway Year, you will progress to Phase I of the five-year GATEWAY GATEWAY Medicine programme.

PHASE I, OR YEARS 1 AND 2 DELIVERING Forming the first two years of the five- This integrated approach, centred on year Medicine programme, Phase I is PBL and grounded in a robust scientific centred around problem-based learning understanding, strong clinical knowledge (PBL), which provides a patient-centred and highly developed clinical reasoning EXCEPTIONAL context for your training. This is reinforced skills, prepares you for success as a doctor. by and integrated with weekly clinical For more information on how we deliver placements in GP surgeries and hospitals, PBL and clinical skills, see p16-19. communication, clinical skills and anatomy MEDICAL EDUCATION sessions, lectures, and workshops.

PHASE II, OR YEARS 3 AND 4 In Phase II, which is years three and four Our placement sites are in Hull, York, of the five-year Medicine programme, Grimsby, Northallerton, Middlesbrough, With a solid grounding in the REMOTE TEACHING you will be fully immersed in a range of Scarborough and Scunthorpe. You will biosciences and structured regular clinical placements across GP surgeries, continue to attend seminars, teaching Our curriculum is designed At the time of going to print, some of our clinical contact, our programmes have community settings and hospitals. You will sessions and clinical skills practicals at our to meet the ever-changing Phase I teaching is being delivered remotely, been developed to reflect the latest rotate through different specialisms and dedicated teaching facilities within each in accordance with social distancing challenges of 21st century educational and scientific research. locations, developing your clinical, history- hospital site. Our friendly student liaison guidelines and to ensure the safety of healthcare – ensuring Disease doesn’t exist in isolation, taking, examination and problem-solving teams are also based here, to ensure you our students and staff. Our experience of so we have developed a tightly skills with patients, under the supervision receive support while on placement. you graduate as an working across multiple sites has allowed integrated curriculum that enables of dedicated clinical tutors. excellent thinker, prepared us to move quickly and effectively to you to make meaningful and practical to deliver exceptional online delivery of some aspects of the connections between individual programme, including problem-based evidence-informed care areas of study. You will explore learning and lectures, without compromising through patient-centred topics through a range of themes PHASE III, OR YEAR 5 our commitment to exceptional medical and disciplines, each presented in communication. education. We have also been able to In Phase III, which is the final year of the You will continue to benefit from teaching a clinically relevant context, and adapt our curriculum to reflect the way programme, your rotations will continue in sessions and clinical skills practicals at our supported through problem-based that healthcare is currently being delivered, primary and secondary care settings, where dedicated facilities within each hospital learning, clinical experience, lectures, training our students to conduct remote even more emphasis will be placed on site. During the final year, you will also procedural and communication skills patient consultations as well as traditional you being a member of a multidisciplinary complete your elective (see p30) and classes, and workshops. We are face-to-face interactions. We look forward medical team, gaining experience of undertake an assistantship, which will constantly reviewing and developing to returning to more in-person teaching as on-call and out-of-hours duties. help you prepare for your role as a our programmes to reflect the soon as it becomes safe to do so. junior doctor. demands of the modern NHS; for the very latest information, 12 Medicine Undergraduate Prospectus 2022 please visit hyms.ac.uk hyms.ac.uk 13 STUDYING WITH US US WITH STUDYING S T U D Y I N G W I T H U S

EARLY AND SUSTAINED CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

MEDICINE WITH A GATEWAY YEAR As a student at Hull York Medical Placements in the Gateway year for students on the six- year School, you will experience programme take the form of taster sessions, where you will shadow healthcare professionals in both primary and secondary a wide range of placements care settings. After successfully completing the Gateway year, throughout your programme, you will progress into Phase I (see below). from busy urban GP practices and major trauma centres, to mental healthcare providers and MEDICINE: PHASE I (YEARS 1-2) rural and coastal community Starting in the third week of the five-year Medicine programme, services. This breadth of you will attend clinical placements every single week. experience will teach you how to respond to your patients’ diverse Your placements will help you put into context what you have learned in your other studies – your problem-based learning circumstances and needs with and anatomy sessions, lectures, workshops and clinical and agility and confidence. communication skills classes.

We are passionate about In your first two years you will attend placements in or around ensuring that you benefit from your home campus city – the University of Hull or the University patient contact as soon as of York. Your placements are easily accessible and most are possible, which is why we deliver within 30 minutes of your campus by road. a significantly higher proportion In Phase I, you will put your learning into practice, interacting of our curriculum in these with patients to develop your clinical and communication skills. environments than many other MEDICINE: PHASE II AND III (YEARS 3-5) A DEDICATED ACADEMY OF PRIMARY CARE medical schools. From your third year onwards, you will experience placements Over 90% of all NHS care happens within The Academy provides a range of across our region, practising your examination, history-taking primary care, which includes care for opportunities to develop your skills and problem-solving skills with real patients before ultimately patients with some of the most complex and knowledge, including independent Learn more becoming a junior member of a multidisciplinary medical team health problems our health system research projects, mentorship with hyms.ac.uk/clinicalplacements in your final year. manages. GPs and hospital doctors offer academic GPs, dedicated master classes generalist and specialist care alongside and seminars, and access to specialist an expanding number of allied health conferences. In addition, some students Ninety per cent of NHS activity happens in the professionals. However, primary care is can undertake an optional Longitudinal of our curriculum community. We therefore provide placements at both changing and in the future the NHS will Integrated Clerkship (LIC). The LIC is dedicated to GP hospital and community-based locations, including: teaching, the highest need doctors with expertise in whole- allows students to be immersed in the Experiencing in the UK person care (expert generalists) as well whole patient journey on their clinical • Community placements at over 100 GP practices and placements at different as doctors with specialist expertise placements, following the same patients providers of mental health, dermatology, sexual health, in specific conditions. Training more over time in varied clinical settings sites and trusts around women’s health or paediatrics services doctors with primary care expertise, and including GP surgeries, hospitals and the Yorkshire and of our curriculum is generalist medicine expertise, is therefore community settings as they navigate delivered in a primary And hospital placements at: Humber region teaches or community care an NHS priority. different aspects of their care. Hull York students setting, the highest • Hull Royal Infirmary (Hull) in the UK • Castle Hill Hospital (Hull) Our Academy of Primary Care is at the By studying with us, you will deepen to be adaptable • York Hospital (York) forefront of research and developments your understanding of this critical and resilient, which • Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital (Grimsby) in primary care and works with regional area of healthcare. prepares us well for • Scunthorpe General Hospital (Scunthorpe) and national NHS and academic partners foundation training as • Scarborough Hospital (Scarborough) Learn more hyms.ac.uk/ CLINICAL to develop, deliver and learn from the junior doctors. PLACEMENTS • The Friarage Hospital (Northallerton) new models of care needed to tackle 21st academyofprimarycare BEGIN IN WEEK • James Cook University Hospital (Middlesbrough) century healthcare challenges. Grace Gilmour, Year 4

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WHAT IS A DIFFERENT WAY PROBLEM-BASED OF LEARNING LEARNING? YOU’LL WORK IN SMALL GROUPS (OF ABOUT 10) THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, FACILITATED BY AN EXPERIENCED CLINICIAN PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING We believe that possessing Our problem-based learning (PBL) groups are strong communication and facilitated by NHS clinicians with a passion for problem-solving skills is essential education and a wealth of real-world experience, who will guide your learning while also providing EACH WEEK YOU’LL BE SET to delivering successful patient- pastoral care and support. You will benefit from their ONE OR TWO SCENARIOS centred care, interacting OF PATIENTS PRESENTING experience, as they provide clinical context for the A PROBLEM effectively with multidisciplinary situations you discuss as a group, as well as learn healthcare colleagues, and from them the professional values and behaviours ultimately being a good you will need as a doctor.

doctor. That is why we place The main emphasis of PBL is on small group problem-based learning and LEARNING IS CENTRED working, centred – as the name suggests – around AROUND THOSE SCENARIOS communication at the heart of a hypothetical ‘problem’ or case. PBL group work ALL WEEK our curriculum. offers a lively, interactive and enjoyable way to build your knowledge, while reinforcing and integrating - Lectures - Clinical placement with what you learn in your lectures and on clinical - Clinical skills - Practical workshops - Anatomy placement. In PBL, there is plenty of opportunity to discuss the social, psychological and ethical issues surrounding a case, which can be more difficult to uncover through traditional lectures. AT THE END OF THE WEEK PBL allows you to form strong relationships, learn YOU’LL RECONVENE AND how to communicate effectively in a group and work REVIEW YOUR LEARNING. as part of a team to tackle and solve problems – YOUR TUTOR WILL ENSURE developing skills that will be invaluable throughout YOU MEET THE REQUIRED LEARNING OUTCOMES. your medical career. You will stay with the same group of typically 10 students throughout your first year of study, before joining a new PBL group in your second year.

Learn more As a graduate entry student, PBL is hyms.ac.uk/PBL an exciting new way of learning for me, allowing me to consolidate my knowledge within a group setting as Keeping up to date with rapidly advancing well as develop my critical thinking skills. scientific knowledge is a challenge for Having only been taught through lectures today’s medical professionals at all previously, I have thoroughly enjoyed being in an interactive learning stages of their career. Clinical reasoning, environment with my peers. PBL mirrors critical thinking and ongoing self-directed the multidisciplinary team that we will learning skills are crucial to your success as work within as doctors, and PBL allows a doctor, all of which our problem-based us to familiarise ourselves with learning helps you to develop. this concept from the very start of our medical journey. Dr Marie Cohen, Director of Problem-Based Learning, GP and Macmillan GP Facilitator Arabella Lloyd, Year 2

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COMMUNICATION ANATOMY AND CLINICAL SKILLS Understanding the structure and function of the Our curriculum has been designed to ensure you Peer physical examinations are non-invasive, and human body is essential to being a brilliant doctor. develop a wide range of skills that you will use in students find they are an effective way to learn Here at Hull York Medical School, under the guidance patient consultations throughout your career, from and develop clinical and communication skills. of our expert anatomists, you will develop the in- physical and mental state examination, to history- Having your peers practise on you also allows you depth understanding of clinical anatomy needed to taking, clinical reasoning and communication. to understand and empathise with the patient’s deliver exceptional healthcare. perspective more deeply. During the first two years of the five-year Everything you learn in your anatomy sessions will Medicine programme, you will attend clinical and In simulated patient interactions, you will observe be applicable to the care of patients and designed communication skills sessions twice per week. as your peers undertake consultations with highly to prepare you to be a competent and safe doctor. These sessions consolidate what you learn in PBL, trained actors in real-time, providing detailed, and link with your experiences on placement. descriptive and non-judgemental feedback, You will build your knowledge of clinical anatomy so you can learn from each other and perfect your using an academically rigorous combination of In peer physical examination, you will practise consultation skills. Our state-of-the-art recording prosections, medical imaging, anatomical models and your examination skills under the direction of an facilities allow you to capture and analyse cutting-edge techniques in living anatomy developed experienced clinical tutor. During these small group your consultations. by our own researchers. We teach using prosections, sessions, you will examine and be examined by your which are anatomical specimens that have been fellow students, giving and receiving feedback in a In recent times it has become more necessary for dissected by our expert anatomists to display and supportive, safe and professional environment. many doctors to conduct consultations remotely demonstrate specific structures, relationships, This approach allows you to develop the skills you via video call. We have adapted our teaching systems and regions. We use a range of preservation need to confidently carry out physical examinations accordingly, ensuring that students are equipped techniques, including Formalin embalming, of real patients. with the skills and confidence to conduct this type Thiel embalming and plastination, to ensure that of consultation effectively. you get the most out of learning anatomy from human specimens. Learn more hyms.ac.uk/clinicalskills If you are interested in dissection, you will have From the first few weeks at the opportunity to carry out a detailed dissection Hull York Medical School, you of a region of the body and to study anatomy in depth within a clinical context as part of the will begin to develop your Scholarship and Special Interest Programme, or in professional communication the elective period in Year 5, or to undertake whole skills and will have the body dissection as part of our suite of intercalated MSc programmes (in Clinical Anatomy, or Clinical opportunity to practise these Anatomy and Education). when on clinical placement. Clinicians often comment Learn more hyms.ac.uk/anatomy on our graduates’ excellent communication skills, which equip them for work in the current busy Learning anatomy using NHS environment. prosections allows you to focus on the anatomical structures, rather Dr Anna Hammond, Director of than worrying about how to dissect Communication Skills Teaching, and GP correctly in order to keep the important structures intact. The prosections are presented really well, to make them as easy as possible for you to learn from.

Dr Kiranjit Kaur, Foundation Year 2 Junior Doctor, Class of 2019

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A CLOSER LOOK AT YEAR 1 EXAMPLE TIMETABLE MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Clinician-led PBL Self-Directed Learning SSIP (see p28) Clinician-led PBL Lectures YOUR FIRST YEAR AM and Clinical & and Clinical & Communication Skills Communication Skills

Self-Directed Learning Clinical Placement Anatomy Lectures PM Whether you are joining our five-year Medicine or six- year Medicine With a Gateway Year programme, your first year will provide the foundation for the rest of your studies. The above timetable is for illustrative purposes only, and may differ from your final timetable. It does not include workshops or biopracticals, which are delivered in specific weeks.

FIVE-YEAR MEDICINE PROGRAMME

As a student on our five-year Medicine programme, your studies For most of the rest of the week, you’ll explore these issues in the first two years will revolve around your weekly problem- through plenary sessions, resource sessions, clinical skills based learning sessions. Each week, all the PBL groups in your teaching, clinical placement and your own individual study – MEDICINE WITH A GATEWAY YEAR PROGRAMME year will be working on the same cases. With guidance from all closely related to the topic you’re working on. On the Medicine With a Gateway Year programme, your and Medical Scholarship. You will learn through a combination your tutor, you’ll discuss an example patient case study. Later in the week in your second PBL session, your group will teaching will be divided into six modules: Human Biology I and of hands-on learning opportunities in our anatomy labs, lectures, The aim of your first PBL session of the week is to find out what meet again with your tutor to share and discuss what each of II; Clinical Skills; Health and Society; Professionalism and Ethics; group sessions, and clinical placement experiences. you need to know to understand the problem fully. You’ll work as you has discovered, consolidating the key information. a group to identify all the issues or learning outcomes that each problem raises. GATEWAY YEAR EXAMPLE TIMETABLE

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Lecture: Clinical & Clinical Placement Lecture: Tutorial: L PBL AM Human Biology Communication Skills Human Biology Professionalism CA D I NI S SC and Ethics LI NT S O C E ES VE EM SI R Seminar: Study Skills Clinical & Seminar: Health and Anatomy Practical C ON Y LA Communication Skills Society Session P PM

The above timetable is for illustrative purposes only, and may differ from your final timetable. Your timetable will change each term to reflect the focus of that term’s teaching. S K LEARNING IS E C L L A F CENTRED AROUND E B N - A D D O A WEEKLY PBL SCENARIO I R I E R S N

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P clinical placement, as I wanted to go to a medical school that was very patient- centred. At Hull York Medical School, A C N O placements start from week 3 of the five- D M year programme. I also really enjoy being C M L U N S able to work in smaller groups through I E N I I C R C A U PBL, and apply our knowledge to A T T L IO C clinical cases. S E K N L IL Katie Leeman, LS Year 2, Medicine With a Gateway Year ANATOMY Watch our PBL video at 20 Medicine Undergraduate Prospectus 2022 hyms.ac.uk/PBL hyms.ac.uk 21 STUDYING WITH US US WITH STUDYING US WITH STUDYING

We are committed to supporting you to achieve your potential, MEASURING providing many opportunities for you to receive constructive feedback, and monitor your progress. Our assessments ensure that you develop the skills needed to practise medicine YOUR PROGRESS safely and confidently.

Assessment is a much broader process than SPOTTER EXAMS just examinations; there are many different In an anatomy ‘spotter’ exam, you will types of assessment, including assessment move around ‘stations’, with each station by tutors at university and on placement, comprising one or more anatomical by your peers, and self-assessment. We use specimens with tagged, flagged or otherwise both formative and summative assessments labelled anatomical structures. Students throughout the programme. are required to answer questions relating to the labelled structures. Each question FORMATIVE AND will typically test either the identification, SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS anatomical relationships or function/ Formative assessments are intended dysfunction of a single labelled to provide feedback on how you are anatomical structure. progressing. Their purpose is to help you and your tutors identify your strengths, CLINICAL EXAMS so that you can build on them, and your Clinical exams are arranged in a circuit of weaknesses, so that you can improve in ‘stations’, in which you will be required to those areas. perform a task which is assessed, usually Formative assessments include written by direct observation with an impartial assignments and online tests, exams or examiner. In the earlier years of the course, practical assessments. They don’t count these stations are shorter and include towards your final qualification assessment of communication skills, physical but are designed to provide you with examination and practical procedures. In feedback to inform your learning. They later years, you will be expected to consult also help to ensure you are familiar with with real or simulated patients to form a the format of specific assessments. conclusion about their problems and, in the final year, develop appropriate The curriculum is designed to build Summative assessments are used to management plans. measure progress and to determine upon knowledge from previous years. THE ONLINE PORTFOLIO Formative assessments allow you to whether you have achieved the level monitor your academic progression of attainment required to progress As you progress through the course it is and identify areas for improvement through the programme, and to important that you are able to understand prior to the summative clinical graduate as a doctor. what is going well, what is not going well, and written examinations. Patient what you could do differently next time, and multidisciplinary interactions DIFFERENT TYPES and what study or practical activities can on placement are also excellent OF ASSESSMENT help you reach your goals. opportunities for self-evaluation and We use a variety of assessment types, some The online portfolio will enable you and us constructive feedback, and reflective of which you may be familiar with already, to document your growth throughout the exercises, the SSIP and critical appraisals such as written assignments, online tests, programme, helping you to develop key enable you to develop additional skills, presentations and examinations. However, life-long learning skills. essential to becoming a doctor you may encounter types of assessment you are not familiar with, such as anatomy Vassili Crispi, Year 5 ‘spotter’ exams, clinical exams Learn more and our online portfolio. hyms.ac.uk/assessment

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A SUPPORT NETWORK TO HELP YOU SUCCEED

HULL YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL SUPPORT TEAM We understand that studying Our dedicated Student Support Team has officers based at both medicine can be challenging, our Hull and York campuses, and is available to offer help and and that there may be times advice throughout your studies, in addition to services provided by the two universities. The team, which includes a dedicated when you need support to Student Life and Wellbeing Officer and Open Door Mental help you manage academic Health Practitioner, is there to help if you have any confidential and personal pressures. Our non-academic queries or concerns, and will signpost you to dedicated network will ensure more specific support services if required. We also follow the that you are supported at every General Medical Council’s Welcomed and Valued guidance step of your medicine journey. to ensure we work closely with disabled students to support them throughout their time at medical school. We’re proud of the fact that our tutors and staff take the time to get to know you personally, and UNIVERSITY STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES the culture of encouragement In addition to our dedicated Student Support Team, you will also have access to support services at the University of Hull and support that this fosters. and the University of York. Both universities offer a wide range of health and wellbeing support and advice, disability support and assessments for adjustments, financial assistance or Learn more advice, and learning support. hyms.ac.uk/support STUDENT LIAISON TEAMS AT CLINICAL PLACEMENT SITES Our hospital sites in Hull, York, Scarborough, Scunthorpe and Grimsby each have a dedicated Student Liaison Team and Clinical Dean, who can provide help and support while you are on placement there. These teams are highly valued Training to be a doctor is exciting by our students and they are able to offer advice about and rewarding. We hope that all getting the most from studying and living in the local area. students complete the course without any problems, but if you encounter difficulties along the way we have a YOUR TUTORS dedicated team to help support you Our academic supervisors, and problem-based learning and EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION to reach your potential. We work clinical skills tutors are motivated and enthusiastic professionals closely with both our universities to and experienced clinicians. They recognise the unique challenges We are committed to providing an Our student support services provide make sure you get the most out of faced by medical students, and are committed to supporting inclusive and supportive environment a safe space to offer guidance and your time at medical school, and work you in becoming a successful healthcare professional, that celebrates diversity. Our EDI support, and ensure our students have the in partnership with you to support you providing pastoral support while also facilitating your learning. Committee works with staff and student skills and confidence to raise concerns, through your studies. We also follow Each Phase of the programme also has a dedicated Academic representatives from all backgrounds to challenge inappropriate behaviours the GMC’s Welcomed and Valued Phase Lead, who is there to offer support and guidance. ensure that our teaching and assessment and advocate for their patients and guidance, to ensure we support materials are representative and inclusive, colleagues. We are a proud member disabled learners in medical education and that our curriculum appropriately of the BMA racial harassment charter STUDENTS’ UNION AND and training, working with you from addresses factors that drive inequalities. for medical schools, as well as holders STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES before your arrival to make sure you Our EDI Champions for Gender; Race, of a Silver Athena SWAN Award for have access to the necessary support The students’ unions at both the University of Hull and Religion or Belief; Disability; and LGBTQ+ commitment to gender equality in when you start the University of York have a range of advice and support issues, promote awareness of equality, science, technology, engineering, functions covering accommodation, finance, advocacy and diversity and inclusion in the day-to-day maths and medicine (STEMM). Dr Alison Blakeborough, more. Medicine student representatives also sit on the Staff operation of the School. Director of Student Committee and School Management Board, working Student Support to support the school in improving our students’ experience.

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Dr Richardson supervising a Hull York Medical School student on I’VE BEEN placement at his Hull practice. ABLE TO fulfl my dreams

I grew up in the North East in a I met a fascinating and inspiring working class family, and went to ward sister and a very supportive a state-run school. We weren’t well consultant who took me under their off but I always felt well-supported wing, inspired me to think about and encouraged. my career options, and strongly encouraged me to go for my dreams After college, I spent five years by applying to Hull York Medical working as a healthcare assistant at School. The rest is history, and I now a mental health trust. I absolutely own my own GP practice in Hull! loved the job, which gave me the opportunity to help people and have Hull York Medical School will always a positive impact on patients’ lives, have a special place in my heart, but becoming a doctor was always mainly because it took a chance on my aim in life. me, and gave me the opportunity to fulfil my dreams. It was everything I wanted in a medical school, putting value on communication skills and lots of patient contact, rather than the standard, traditional model of lecture-based learning, which I probably would have struggled with. For me, spending time with patients and learning from them is crucial to having a good medical education.

Hull York Medical Hull York was everything School will always have I wanted in a medical a special place in my heart. school, putting value on communication skills and Dr Scot Richardson, GP Partner, Hull, Class of 2008 lots of patient contact

26 Medicine Undergraduate Prospectus 2022 hyms.ac.uk 27 E X P L ORIN G Y O U R IN T E R E S T S E X P L ORIN G Y O U R IN T E R E S T S TAILORING YOUR EXPERIENCE

SCHOLARSHIP AND SPECIAL INTERCALATION Being a successful doctor INTEREST PROGRAMME Intercalation is an opportunity for requires you to draw from Our Scholarship and Special Interest medical students to take a year out a wide range of academic Programme (SSIP), part of the five-year from their medical degree, and study Medicine programme, gives you the for an additional degree. This may be and life experiences, so opportunity to concentrate on subjects a specially designed intercalated we encourage you to that particularly interest you, and study Bachelors (BSc), Masters (MSc) or PhD pursue areas of specialised them in depth. Working with our expert programme, depending on your interests. knowledge outside the core tutors, you will undertake small-scale Intercalation offers a unique opportunity curriculum – tailoring projects, and acquire research skills to explore new subject areas or the to help you develop as an chance to enhance existing skills. the programme to suit independent scholar. your interests and While intercalation is not compulsory career aspirations. In each year of the Phase I SSIP, you at Hull York Medical School, we will choose from a menu of projects do encourage you to consider this and will work in small groups alongside opportunity, and offer a number of tutors who are active researchers and options both within the Medical School world-renowned experts in their fields, and at the Universities of Hull and York. affiliated to our research groups. Project themes within Phase I range from health At postgraduate level we offer Masters inequalities and global public health, degrees in Clinical Anatomy, Clinical medical humanities, neuroscience, cancer Anatomy and Education, Health management, experimental medicine and Professions Education, Human Anatomy biomedicine, and mammalian ecology and Evolution, Pharmacology and and evolutionary anatomy. Drug Development, Pharmacology and Education, Public Health, and Medical During Phase II you will undertake Sciences (by thesis), as well as a wider projects, which will give you further range of options at the Universities of opportunity to pursue your interests Hull and York. At Bachelors level we in even greater depth, and may entail offer degrees in Biomedical Sciences, undertaking a piece of research, Immunology and Infection, developing teaching or leadership skills, and Neuroscience. or participating in an audit or care quality improvement project. Many students who We have also developed a website have undertaken SSIP projects in Phase intercalate.co.uk for students thinking II have gone on to present their work at about intercalation, listing all the intercalation options available to medical national and international conferences The SSIP allows us to study a subject which would not usually be students in the UK. as well as publishing their findings in covered by lectures, PBL or clinical placement, and to delve further peer-reviewed journals. into some of our own interests, related to healthcare and/or research. I was fortunate to take a module on transgender health during my Learn more Learn more Year 1 SSIP, which was extremely useful in learning about how to hyms.ac.uk/ssips hyms.ac.uk/intercalation approach gender-sensitive topics or situations, and has influenced the way that I speak with patients. In later years, the SSIP involves getting involved in a research or educational project.

Elle Morris, Year 5

28 Medicine Undergraduate Prospectus 2022 hyms.ac.uk 29 EXPLORING YOUR INTERESTS 31 hyms.ac.uk hyms.ac.uk Learn more more Learn hyms.ac.uk/electives

I spent my elective in the Plastic Surgery in the Surgery Plastic elective I spent my Department of the National Taiwan University University Department of the National Taiwan Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. I had an amazing Taiwan. Hospital, Taipei, experience where I was able to observe all observe able to I was where experience aspects of plastic surgery, especially craniofacial surgeries surgeries especially craniofacial aspects ofsurgery, plastic for rare disorders like Crouzon Syndrome. I also had hands- Syndrome. Crouzon like disorders rare for on experience of microsurgery with a Leica microscope at at with microscope a Leica of microsurgery on experience the Medical Student Microsurgery Summer Camp, which was Summer which Camp, the was Medical Student Microsurgery organised by the Taiwan Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery. Microsurgery. Society of Reconstructive the Taiwan by organised

Foundation Year 1 Junior Doctor, Class of 2020 of 2020 Class 1 Junior Doctor, Year Foundation Chie Katsura, I spent my elective in the Oncology, Paediatrics Paediatrics in the Oncology, elective I spent my the University Departments at and Emergency Zambia. I had a Hospital in Lusaka, Teaching see many to able and was experience fantastic in the UK, before witnessed I had never that conditions malnutrition. acute and severe sarcoma such as Kaposi’s department in the emergency time my I particularly enjoyed and managing in assessing me further experience as it gave sick patients. really of 2020 Class 1 Junior Doctor, Year Foundation Gardner Louise I spent my elective with the helicopter emergency medical emergency with the helicopter elective I spent my as seen on Anglian Air Ambulance, of the East service provide I helped to Medics’. Helicopter ‘Emergency Channel 4’s patients seriously unwell some of the most to care intensive which experience, and gained valuable counties, four across and pre-hospital in anaesthesia will help me pursue a career medicine. emergency 2019 of Class Doctor, 2 Junior Year Foundation Eammon Reda, and national events. events. and national At the time of going to print, international and local print, international the time of going to At Please be aware in place. were restrictions travel global by plans can be affected elective your that Students find their electives a hugely find their electives Students and rewarding enjoyable educational, clinical will gain invaluable You experience. can you where in locations experience healthcare both to a difference, help make them. those who receive and to services * *

Sarawak General Hospital, Malaysia Hospital, Malaysia General Sarawak Hospital, London Ormond Street Great Birmingham Orthopaedic Hospital, Royal Hospital, Canada General Kingston Philippines Medical Centre, Visayas Western Hospital, India Gudalur Adivasi Peru Office, Cuzco Maximo Nivel Dei Hospital, Malta Mater Vincent Memorial Hospital, St Cato Milton Australia Island Medical Clinic, Kangaroo Honduras Clinica Esperanza, Hospital, Zambia Teaching University Hospital, Vietnam Cho Ray upon Tyne Hospital, Newcastle Freeman The Hospital, Nepal Teaching University Tribhuvan Sri Lanka of Colombo, University Pakistan Hospitals Ltd, International Shifa Islands Memorial Hospital, Falkland King Edward Hospital, Hong Kong of Wales Prince Memorial Clinic, Malawi Billy Riordan Hospital, Cambodia Kossamak Preah Saint-Luc, Belgium Cliniques Universitaires Hospital, London Mary’s St Hospital, Kenya National Kenyatta Hospital, Uganda Referral Mbale Regional Hospital, Bath United Royal Japan School of Medicine, University Jikei Take a look at just some of the locations, both some of the locations, just a look at Take have our students where in the UK and abroad, years: in recent electives completed Medicine Undergraduate Prospectus 2022 2022 Prospectus Medicine Undergraduate

One of the most exciting parts of exciting One of the most Hull York at medical training your elective. is your Medical School out a six-week will carry You beginning of your the at elective the have when you’ll final year or work abroad travel to chance in the UK.* service in a specialist ELECTIVES ELECTIVES EXPLORING YOUR INTERESTS 30 30 EXPLORING YOUR INTERESTS E X P L ORIN G Y O U R IN T E R E S T S OUR RESEARCH IS TRANSFORMING

LIVES

At York our researchers have a global reputation for Our pioneering research is their work, from scientific discoveries that underpin the development, diagnosis and treatment of founded on the desire to make tropical diseases, to mental health research which a real and lasting difference to is transforming interventions for some of the most people’s lives. Across our sites, vulnerable members of our society. Significant our world-leading experts are projects have included the development of LEGO- advancing improvements in based therapy to support children with autism, healthcare – diagnosis, treatment spearheading a global drive to highlight and tackle the devastating parasitic disease leishmaniasis, and care – transforming the lives conducting research to control tobacco use and of patients in the local region encourage smoking cessation in developing and beyond. countries, and working to improve outcomes for patients living with diabetes and mental illness.

At Hull our research is transforming the lives of patients with life-limiting conditions. Our £2.4 million Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre at the University of Hull is home to world- leading Hull York Medical School research into % palliative care. Our researchers are also impacting the way cancer is diagnosed, understood and treated at a local and national level – encouraging early diagnosis and reducing inequalities in access to treatment. Hull York Medical School is part of the prestigious national INSPIRE programme, of our research is world-leading As a student at Hull York Medical School, you will coordinated by the Academy of Medical or internationally excellent have the opportunity to interact with and be taught (Research Excellence Framework) by some of these leading researchers, as well as Sciences and funded by the Wellcome Trust to pursue your own research interests through the encourage medical students to get involved Scholarship and Special Interest Programme or by in research. We have received funding since intercalating on a one-year BSc or MSc programme 2014 to sponsor research activities including £ M (see p28). student projects, an annual student conference, workshops, and support for application to the programmes dedicated to international Academic Foundation Programme. We have a preventative medicine and mental health very active student research community at Hull York Medical School, so if you have an interest in research, this is a great way to get involved.

Dr Heidi Baseler, Lecturer in Imaging £ M Sciences and INSPIRE Programme Lead research programme tackling cancer inequalities

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DISCOVER HULL

THE DEEP: One of the most AN UNFORGETTABLE spectacular aquariums in the world, and home to 5,000 animals including magnificent EXPERIENCE sharks and penguins. OLD TOWN: Centuries-old streets lined with welcoming pubs and fantastic museums, not to mention the stunning LIVING AND STUDYING IN CAMPUS LIFE Hull Minster, and street-food Both Hull and York HULL AND YORK Whichever home university you are allocated, haven Trinity Market. Hull’s Old provide exciting and If you are a student on the five-year Medicine you will become part of a welcoming and Town is a fascinating gem at welcoming places to programme, you will be allocated to Hull or diverse student community, with both the heart of the city. York as your home campus when you receive institutions offering a unique and memorable study and live. your offer to study with us. Your home campus learning environment – from the beautiful MARINA: Trendy bars sit will be allocated at random, unless you meet landscaping and red-brick buildings at Hull to alongside vibrant art galleries certain limited criteria (see hyms.ac.uk/campus- the lakeside setting and vibrant college system and creative spaces in one of Hull’s most recently

HULL allocation for details), and you will be based at York. Both campuses offer an abundance of there for your first two years of study. cafés, restaurants, outdoor spaces and sports regenerated areas. facilities, and plenty of opportunities to meet HULL FAIR: One of Europe’s If you are a student on the six- year Medicine people, have fun, dust off old skills and develop largest travelling funfairs With a Gateway Year programme, you will new ones. With medical-specific societies dating back an incredible 700 spend the initial Gateway Year based at the ranging from Wilderness Medicine to the Teddy years, Hull Fair is an annual University of Hull campus, after which you can Bear Hospital, and dozens of clubs available UK CITY OF institution in the city. CULTURE choose whether to remain at Hull or transfer for you to join as a member of the University to the University of York for Phase I of the 2017-2021 of Hull or York Students’ Union, you’ll never be DISCOVER MORE: hull.ac.uk Medicine programme. short of something to do. Hull and York MedSoc and click ‘Choose Hull’ are the two leading societies for Medicine Regardless of your location, you will follow YORK students; whether it ’s a charity fundraiser, exactly the same curriculum, have access to

barbecue, formal ball or quiz night, they will HULL the same facilities, and obtain the same level of ensure there’s lots for you to get involved in. outstanding teaching as your peers at the other campus. From the third year of the Medicine CITY EXPERIENCE DISCOVER YORK programme onwards, you will spend most of ONE OF THE Both universities are situated within close your time on clinical placement at hospital sites THE YORK MINSTER: BEST PLACES TO proximity to their respective city centres, where LIVE IN THE UK and GP practices within the region (see p14), A magnificent gothic cathedral you will find bars, shops, theatres, museums, (THE SUNDAY TIMES 2019) alongside students who spent their first two dating back to the 7th century cinemas, restaurants, and creative and cultural years at both university campuses. – not to be missed! activities to suit every taste and interest. From Whether you’re on placement or on campus, the winding mediaeval streets of York to Hull’s THE JORVIK VIKING CENTRE: you will always have access to a wealth of bustling and picturesque marina, the two cities Come face to face with a physical and electronic learning resources, are eclectic, friendly and ever-evolving. York Viking and take a tour of the outstanding library facilities and our powerful is a real city of contrasts, boasting centuries sights, sounds and smells virtual learning environment, Blackboard, to of beautifully preserved history in the streets of 10th-century York at this support your studies. In addition, all of your surrounding the magnificent gothic Minster, longstanding attraction. lectures are automatically recorded, so you can as well as an array of pubs, shops and cultural watch them again at any time to refresh your events, including the inspiring annual Festival A PUB FOR EVERY DAY understanding of a particular topic. of Ideas. UK City of Culture 2017-2021 Hull, OF THE YEAR? While this meanwhile, has become a true destination city urban legend might not in recent years. Its annual Freedom Festival is quite be true, the city centre Learn more a premier art, music and entertainment event, certainly boasts enough hyms.ac.uk/studentlife while trendy Humber Street in the heart of the traditional pubs, cosy bars, city’s Old Town is a creative and cultural hub, indie nights and popular clubs filled with galleries, live music venues, markets, to cater to all tastes. bars and restaurants. The city even boasts its very own Banksy artwork! Both Hull and York FESTIVAL OF IDEAS: An At the time of going to print, are well-connected, offering convenient rail annual event featuring world- some restrictions were still in links to London, Edinburgh and Manchester class speakers, exhibitions and place for nightlife venues and music events across the city other cultural events in both Hull (see p10), and easy access the natural beauty and York. of the Yorkshire countryside and coast. and university campus.

DISCOVER MORE: 34 Medicine Undergraduate Prospectus 2022 hyms.ac.uk 35 york.ac.uk/city YORK YORK LIFE AT HULL YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL SCHOOL MEDICAL YORK ATLIFE HULL SCHOOL MEDICAL YORK ATLIFE HULL

As a member of the prestigious Russell Group, the University of York is firmly established as one of the success stories in UK higher education.

In 2019 the University invested £5.8 million to develop Hull York Medical School facilities in York, including a complete redesign of the existing medical school building, incorporating transformed laboratory and study facilities. Across the wider campus, an unprecedented £500 million has been invested since 2000 into transforming accommodation, research and sports facilities.

As a Hull York Medical School student allocated York as WELCOME TO your home campus, you will become a member of one of a number of small, distinct colleges on campus, each with its own unique personality and social calendar, which will be your home as you settle into university life. OUR CAMPUSES Take a virtual tour: york.ac.uk/study/visit/online-campus-tour

The University of Hull has invested more than £200 million to transform its hidden treasure of a campus into a visionary 21st century learning environment, including the construction of a £28 million health campus.

At the heart of campus sits the stunning Allam Medical Building. Officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2017, this impressive building is dedicated to training the next generation of health professionals, from doctors, nurses and midwives to paramedics and physician associates. Here, you will complete your PBL sessions and lectures, and develop your practical and consultation skills in fully equipped clinical and communication suites, where state-of-the-art recording facilities allow you to capture and analyse your consultations.

Take a virtual tour: virtualtour.hull.ac.uk

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STARTING OUT: THE INITIAL YEARS Throughout your time as a Hull If you are a student on the six-year Medicine With a York Medical School student, you Gateway Year programme, you will spend the initial will live both on campus and, Gateway Year based at the University of Hull, after which you can choose whether to remain at Hull or from Year three of the Medicine transfer to the University of York for Phase I programme onwards, mainly off- (years 1 and 2) of the Medicine programme. site at your placement locations. If you are a student on the five-year Medicine programme, your home campus for Phase I will be allocated at random, unless you meet certain limited criteria (see hyms.ac.uk/campus-allocation for details).

Both universities offer a variety of modern, comfortable accommodation at prices to suit all budgets. Provided you apply by the relevant university’s deadline, you are guaranteed a room in university-owned accommodation. In Hull, this will be within our well-appointed on-campus WHAT WILL accommodation, which includes shared campus houses, apartments and studios, while in York you IT COST?* will become a member of one of the University’s undergraduate colleges, which provide a sense of inclusivity and community. Whichever style of HULL: accommodation you opt for, you can be sure of a friendly welcome, an excellent support network, £128-£215 and access to a range of social activities during per week* welcome week and beyond. for self-catered on-campus YEARS 3-5 accommodation For the remainder of the Medicine programme, you will be on clinical placement, rotating around our clinical sites (see p14). YORK:

You will be expected to maintain accommodation in £99 to £174 your home campus city (Hull or York) throughout the per week* for a self-catered room programme, but you will be provided with free NHS in a University college, or accommodation for any placement away from your home campus. We regularly review our placement £139 to £196 offering to ensure you get the very best clinical per week* experience across our region, and so it is possible for a catered room in a that changes to the way we deliver placements may University college become necessary in future years. Should this occur, *The prices quoted are for the 2021/22 we will ensure you are kept fully informed. academic year (Hull) and 2020/21 academic year (York); prices for the 2022/23 academic year may vary. For the latest information visit hull. Learn more ac.uk/accommodation or york.ac.uk/ hyms.ac.uk/accommodation accommodation

38 Medicine Undergraduate Prospectus 2022 hyms.ac.uk 39 OUR STORIES OUR STORIES I WANT TO BECOME A ROLE MODEL AND make an impact

My parents grew up in Afghanistan The Hull York application process was during a time of civil war and unrest, very personal, especially when it came to and were unable to access any proper interviews; I felt valued and put at ease by education. As the first generation in my the students and interviewers. family to go into higher education, I was therefore encouraged by my parents to pursue opportunities that were never available to them.

I wanted to study medicine because it excites me as a profession. Doctors play a vital role throughout patients’ entire lives, from delivering a newborn, The he Hull YorkY to seeing a patient through to their last moments of life. It is this ability to have a lasting impact, combined with my applicationapplica process fascination with human anatomy and its imperfections, that inspired me to pursue The Medicine With a Gateway Year wasas veryv personal, a career in medicine. programme has enabled me to fulfil my especially when it came dream of studying medicine – something I have wanted to do from a young age. too interviews;int I felt valued The Medicine With a Gateway It provides an insight into the ethical perspective of decisions made by medical Year programme has enabled professionals, and explores the social, and put ata ease me to fulfil my dream of economic and psychological aspects studying medicine. of medicine, both within the NHS and globally.

As a member of the Afghan Sikh community, I hope that by studying Hull York Medical School appealed to me medicine I can set a new path for other because of its clinical placements, which young women in my community and begin at the start the course. I also found become a role model for them – as well as problem-based learning a helpful means being able to make an impact on society. of social development, especially as most medicine relies on teamwork to achieve Komalpreet Kaur, successes in patient treatment. Medicine With a Gateway Year

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PLANNING YOUR APPLICATION

We recognise that the application HEALTH AND DISABILITY process can appear complicated and We pride ourselves on our We welcome an application from you if daunting, which is why our friendly and fair, transparent and inclusive you have a disability, including dyslexia, knowledgeable admissions team is on or a serious medical condition. We believe selection process, which we hand to answer your questions, and offer that you can make a valuable contribution INCREASING ACCESS use to recruit and admit high timely, jargon-free guidance and support to the practice of medicine, and we’re where possible. quality applicants. We’re committed to supporting and advising looking for people who share you in the application process. As with TO MEDICINE THROUGH our commitment to excellent CHOOSING THE FIVE OR SIX all potential applicants, it ’s important healthcare and practice, and YEAR PROGRAMME before you apply to gain insight into the demands of a medical career and a who we believe will benefit We offer two programmes: our five- realistic understanding of the roles of a WIDENING PARTICIPATION year Medicine programme, and our from the contemporary doctor. For more detailed information, six- year Medicine With a Gateway Year education offered on our including details of the practical and programme (see p44). The six- year Medicine and Medicine With financial support available, please see programme is a widening participation a Gateway Year programmes. hyms.ac.uk/disability. initiative, and you must meet a number of criteria to be eligible to apply – see DIVERSITY AND MEDICINE WITH p44-47 for full details of our entry FITNESS TO PRACTISE Since day one we have been WIDENING ACCESS A GATEWAY YEAR requirements and selection procedure. If you have any prior convictions, dedicated to providing We recognise that there are many The Medicine With a Gateway Year If you have any queries, cautions, reprimands or final warnings opportunities and support, factors which can impact students’ programme is a widening participation please contact us at WORK EXPERIENCE that are not ‘protected’ as defined by through a variety of widening success in securing a place to study initiative which aims to support students [email protected] the ROA 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 medicine – from academic entry from underrepresented backgrounds who It is advisable to get some hands-on participation activities, to (as amended in 2013) by S1 2013 1198, requirements to parents’ academic have a passion for making a difference experience supporting and caring for you must inform our Admissions Tutor in allow young people from attainment or personal circumstances. and are keen to pursue a career in others before applying to medical school. writing when you apply. For more detailed across our region and beyond medicine. You must meet a number of You should find out how a doctor ’s role information, please see hyms.ac.uk/ to fulfil their dreams of We are therefore committed to raising criteria to be eligible to apply – see p44 fits within a healthcare team in both fitness-to-practise. becoming doctors. aspirations and widening access to for details. hospital and community settings, even if Medicine for those from underrepresented you are not able to shadow a doctor. backgrounds, and selecting the best PATHWAYS applicants based on their potential. Get experience by talking to or observing TO MEDICINE One way in which we achieve this is by healthcare professionals, or by working Our flagship Pathways to using contextual information alongside as a volunteer or employee within a Medicine programme, funded your UCAS form to better inform our related environment. The knowledge by the Sutton Trust, supports decision-making. Due to the availability that you gain from work experience is talented Year 12 students who wish to and comparability of data, the use far more important than the quantity study Medicine, providing an insight into of contextual information applies to of work experience you have. For the medical professions, and support UK applicants only. More information more independent information, visit through the application and selection about how we use contextual data can medschools.ac.uk and search for process. For more information, be found on p46 and at hyms.ac.uk/ ‘work experience’. visit hyms.ac.uk/pathways selectionprocedure. We also offer a range of activities for schools and colleges for Year 7 upwards, ranging from discovery days and talks to Year 12 summer schools and mock interviews. For more information, visit hyms.ac.uk/about/information-for-schools.

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SJT BAND 1, 2 OR 3 UCAT UCAT We typically receive typically receive We 1700 approximately each year applications H75 apply by All applicants must in the calendar year 15 October entry. prior to A100 UCAS INSTITUTION CODE CODE INSTITUTION UCAS UCAS COURSE CODE CODE COURSE UCAS PROGRAMME INTAKE INTAKE PROGRAMME UK AND 11 PLACES INTERNATIONAL 220 points INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE 36 hyms.ac.uk/entry-requirements hyms.ac.uk/entry-requirements

Telford: Access to Higher Education Higher Education to Access Telford: (Medicine and Health Professions) Diploma in Higher Education Pharmacy Dentistry, Medicine, and Medical Science in Clinical Sciences/Medicine Stafford College and New College, College, and New College Stafford to Access College: Manchester The Foundation of Bradford: University See p48 for details of our alternative details of our alternative See p48 for offers. and contextual applicants international that Please note the Medicine apply to not eligible to are more For programme. Year a Gateway With about international details and advice / please visit hyms.ac.uk applications, international 6 GCSEs grade 9/A*-4/C or 9/A*-4/C GCSEs: 6 GCSEs grade including English Language equivalent, Resits or above. 6/B at and Maths accepted. are 2:1 in a relevant least At GRADUATES: first your and BBB at degree, Bioscience full requirements For sitting of A Levels. see • • • / see hyms.ac.uk full requirements For entry-requirements or A*-C or A*-C 6 GCSEs AT LEVEL: 6 GCSEs AT 9-4

If you have any queries, please contact us at us at queries, please contact any have If you [email protected] Access to HE Diploma HE Diploma to Access (Medicine and Dentistry) Medicine to Access College of West Anglia, King’s Lynn: Lynn: Anglia, King’s of West College Lewes: College, Downs Sussex INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS APPLICANTS INTERNATIONAL our five-year for applications welcome We international from Medicine programme academic standing. of excellent students on 1 October be 17 or over must You Unfortunately, enrol. you in the year applications deferred cannot accept we students. international from APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS band Judgement Test Situational UCAT: in the be taken must UCAT of 1, 2 or 3. The of application. calendar year inc Biology and A LEVELS: AAA Studies, General (excluding Chemistry and Applied Citizenship Critical Thinking, if BBB accepted are Resits Science). sitting. in first achieved BACCALAUREATE: INTERNATIONAL Higher-Level 36 points with 6, 6, 5 in three subjects, inc Biology and Chemistry. KEY FACTS: FACTS: KEY (5 YEARS) MEDICINE A LEVELS: Inc Biology and Chemistry Inc Biology and Chemistry MATURE APPLICANTS APPLICANTS MATURE proof applicants who have welcome We of knowledge and appropriate of recent via a biomedical Biology and Chemistry these studying by degree, sciences taking one of or by A Level, subjects at Medicine courses: to Access the following • • AAA

SJT BAND 1, 2 OR 3 UCAT UCAT low participation. Your POLAR4 young POLAR4 young Your participation. low be 1 or 2 quintile should participation can check this at you and qualify, to officeforstudents.org.uk qualifications education Bursary the UCAT In addition, you should either: should either: In addition, you leaver • Be a care Or: of the following Fulfil two criteria: data contextual of is in an area home postcode • Your higher any have don’t parents • Your and received applied for • You 29 BACCALAUREATE: INTERNATIONAL Higher-Level points with 5, 5, 4 in three 5. at subjects, inc Biology and Chemistry 9/A*-4/C GCSEs: 5 GCSEs grade including English Language or equivalent, are Resits or above. 4/C at and Maths accepted. Distinction-Distinction-Distinction BTEC: with Biomedical in Applied Science (DDD) options. Science points INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE 29 1 October in the year you start the start you in the year 1 October programme completing between years than three school and beginning the programme ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY As a Widening Participation initiative, initiative, Participation As a Widening a Gateway Medicine With the six-year applicants prioritises programme Year area. Medical School the Hull York from meet the All applicants must criteria: following on should be aged 17 or over • You a gap of no more should have • You APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS band Judgement Test Situational UCAT: in the be taken must UCAT of 1, 2 or 3. The of application. calendar year with Biology and A LEVELS: BBC-ABB (excluding B or above at Chemistry Critical Thinking, Studies, General Resits and Applied Science). Citizenship applicants that Please note accepted. are not eligible are or above AAB predicted and should only apply this programme for Medicine programme. the five-year to 5 GCSEs AT LEVEL: 5 GCSEs AT or A*-C 9-4

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Applicants are scored U policy, and provide support • Top 6 GCSE results (five-year Medicine for offer stage. T A & ranked on these areas: S programme) or Top 5 GCSE results L for applicants throughout If you are invited for interview, your (six- year Medicine With a Gateway the process. statement is likely to prove useful Year programme) (30 points) preparation for interview questions. It is

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C E important that your statement is honest r y P • Contextual data (15 points). More o O e S g I and accurate; we may check the claims a U N information about what this means r r C a O D T M that you make on your statement, and m R can be found at R E e A m E discovery of fabricated or exaggerated X d G X hyms.ac.uk/selectionprocedure T e i c T material may lead to the withdrawal of A o i E U n n e l OFFERS INTERVIEW We do not operate a pre-set cut off, a future offer of a place. A y but use your UCAT decile and SJT band L Offers are in combination with your GCSEs and Applications are given full consideration made based on a irrespective of the applicant ’s age, race, K N contextual data to create a candidate combination S O colour, nationality, ethnic origin, religious A I ranking. Your score will only ever be T T beliefs, disability, HIV status, sexual of these areas: A considered in comparison to the other S U T orientation, gender, marital or parental J C S candidates applying at the same time T A B T as you. status, or social or economic status. A N IO D R A N We do not score your personal statement; N O CE TI You can be reassured however, it is an important part of your S A IN OV ST application to Hull York Medical School as TE ER INI that we value each RV ALL M W it allows you to talk about your interests, IEW RVIE application and that our SCO INTE achievements and ambitions. RE 1 & 2 admissions processes are fair and transparent. My team and I look INTERVIEWS forward to meeting you We run Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs), We understand that you may feel nervous at an upcoming open incorporating two mini interviews, a about interviews, but we do encourage day, and answering any group exercise, a scenario and a task. In you to relax, be yourself and enjoy your questions you may the MMIs, we want to find out more about day with us. The interviews help us to find THE APPLICATION JOURNEY AT A GLANCE you, your personal characteristics and out more about you. They also provide have about our values, and your ability to think critically you with the opportunity to meet current SEPTEMBER: OCTOBER: NOVEMBER: DECEMBER/JANUARY: FEBRUARY/MARCH: selection process. and work as a team. You won’t be tested students and find out more about what UCAT UCAS closing Applications processed on your medical knowledge. it ’s like to study with us. date for Medicine and invitations to Interviews take place Offers are sent Dr Veronica McKay, closing date applications interview are sent Director of Candidates are ranked following interview,

Admissions, and GP Watch our animated video and offers are issued soon after. Please note that the above timeline is provided as a rough guide only. Dates are subject to change, and you should always check with the relevant organisations direct. to discover more about how we select for interview 46 Medicine Undergraduate Prospectus 2022 hyms.ac.uk/interviews hyms.ac.uk 47 A D M I S S I O N S A N D O FFE RS A D M I S S I O N S A N D O FFE RS

MAKING OUR OFFERS FEES AND FUNDING

We combine your overall interview score with additional points allocated to your UCAT Situational The current tuition fee for 2021/22 entry on both the five-year Medicine and six- year Judgement Test band and, in the case of the five-year Medicine programme, your contextual data. Medicine With a Gateway Year programmes is £9,250 per year. Fees for 2022/23 are We then rank applicants and make offers once all interviews are completed. subject to increase in line with government policy. Updated information on fees for 2022/23 will be posted on our website as soon as possible following the government announcement. Based on your application, circumstances and interview performance, we could issue one Further increases within the government fee cap will apply in subsequent academic years. of the following types of offers. Students from outside the United Kingdom should check hyms.ac.uk/fees for the latest information.

STANDARD OFFERS INTERNATIONAL MAINTENANCE LOAN HULL YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL AND EU STUDENTS (UK students only) INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP International fees for the 2021/22 academic The Maintenance Loan covers, or helps towards, Each year we award one international year are £36,750 per year, with annual increases your living costs. The amount you receive will scholarship based on academic merit and capped at a maximum of 2%. The 2022/23 fees depend on your residual household income, and financial need. The precise details of the BBC AAA are yet to be confirmed, but will be published may vary over the course of the programme. scholarship are to be confirmed. Please check MEDICINE WITH A GATEWAY YEAR: MEDICINE: STANDARD OFFER on our website when available. Like the Tuition Fee Loan, you will start paying hyms.ac.uk/fees for the latest information. STANDARD OFFER Our standard offer for the five-year Medicine programme this back after you have left university and are earning over £25,000. DISABLED STUDENTS’ Our standard offer for the Medicine With a Gateway is AAA at A Level or 36 in the International Baccalaureate. FINANCIAL SUPPORT Year programme is BBC at A Level (with B in Biology ALLOWANCES Student Finance England have a calculator at Students with a disability can apply for Disabled and Chemistry) or 29 in the International Baccalaureate, TUITION FEE LOAN gov.uk/student-finance-calculator to help you Students’ Allowances to cover any additional assuming the relevant eligibility criteria have been met During your first four years of study (both on determine how much Maintenance Loan you are costs incurred because of their disability. (see p44). If you are holding an offer for Medicine With a the Medicine and Medicine With a Gateway Year eligible to receive. Gateway Year, but your subsequent academic performance programme), students who have not already STUDENTS WITH CHILDREN meets the requirements of our five-year Medicine studied at degree level may receive a Tuition HULL YORK MEDICAL Students with children may be eligible for programme, you may be able to bypass the Gateway Year Fee Loan from Student Finance England. After SCHOOL BURSARY the Parents’ Learning Allowance and a and progress straight to Year 1 of the five-year programme, this point, if you are from England or Wales, you UK students starting in 2021, including graduate Childcare Grant. either that year if space allows, or by deferral if necessary. will receive additional funding from the NHS. entrants and intercalating students, registered GRADUATES If you are from Wales, Northern Ireland, either at the University of York or the University Scotland, Guernsey, Jersey or the Isle of Man of Hull with a residual household income of If you have already completed an you will need to apply to your own funding £25,000 or less may receive the Hull York undergraduate degree you won’t be entitled to ALTERNATIVE/CONTEXTUAL OFFERS body for your student finance, and their Medical School Bursary of £2,400 per year of a Tuition Fee Loan, but may still be eligible for arrangements may differ. study. This is awarded as an accommodation the Maintenance Loan and Hull York Medical discount, or a cash sum if you are not in School Bursary. Any previous study at degree The Tuition Fee Loan is paid directly to the university managed accommodation. If you are level will impact the funding you can receive, even if you did not finish your degree. You will IN EPQ University on your behalf. It covers the cost of an EU student residing in the UK and are unsure ABB AAB+a AAB if you are eligible for this bursary please visit still receive NHS funding in your final year if you your tuition fees in full. You start paying this MEDICINE: ALTERNATIVE OFFER MEDICINE: EPQ OFFER MEDICINE: CONTEXTUAL OFFER back after you have left university, and are york.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/fees-funding/ are eligible. earning over £25,000. fee-status/ If you are taking the EPQ alongside your If you complete one of the following If you meet our contextual data criteria Learn more A Levels and make Hull York Medical widening participation programmes, and make Hull York Medical School your NHS FUNDING Details of the Bursary for 2022 entry are yet hyms.ac.uk/fees or passing any assignments, and make Hull School your firm choice, we may firm choice, we may make a reduced offer to be confirmed, but will be published on our If you are from England or Wales, in the fifth hyms.ac.uk/gateway-fees York Medical School your firm choice, make a reduced offer of of AAB at A Level. Full details of website when available. year of the Medicine programme, or fifth and AAB, plus an A in the EPQ. we will make a reduced offer of ABB our contextual criteria can be found at sixth years of the Medicine With a Gateway Year Students receiving the bursary who are also at A Level: hyms.ac.uk/selectionprocedure programme, you will be eligible for NHS funding eligible for the Realising Opportunities or Next • University of York Next Step York programme providing you were living in the UK, the Channel Step York Progression bursaries will receive Islands or the Isle of Man for at least three years • University of York Pathways to an additional £1,000, regardless of whether before the start of the course. NHS funding STEM programme they are initially based at Hull or York. You do does not have to be repaid. • Hull York Medical School Pathways not need to apply for the bursary. When you to Medicine programme complete your student finance application, Please see the NHS Student Bursaries • Realising Opportunities programme simply tick the box giving your permission to (nhsbsa.nhs.uk) and Student Finance NHS share your information with the university. • UKWPMed bursaries (gov.uk/nhs-bursaries) websites for more information. 48 Medicine Undergraduate Prospectus 2022 hyms.ac.uk 49 Please note that these bursaries are awarded by your University of registration and not by Hull York Medical School AFTER YOU GRADUATE YOU GRADUATE AFTER

AFTER YOU GRADUATE

Graduation marks the end of one phase of broader Yorkshire and the Humber At the end of the Medicine your medical training and the beginning Postgraduate Deanery. We have close of another – Foundation Year 1 and links with the Deanery, as the majority or Medicine With a Gateway Foundation Year 2 training. of our graduating students choose to Year programme, you will stay in the Yorkshire region to continue graduate with an MB BS GMC REGISTRATION their training. (Bachelor of Medicine and After graduation, you are entitled to FUTURE CHANGES TO Bachelor of Surgery) degree, provisional registration with the UK GMC REGISTRATION awarded jointly by the General Medical Council, and are given a licence to practise medicine. There is some discussion about whether Universities of Hull and York. to remove provisional registration for Your degree is a primary medical newly qualified doctors. If this happens, qualification (PMQ). Holding a PMQ UK graduates will receive full registration entitles you to provisional registration as soon as they have successfully with the General Medical Council, subject completed an MB BS degree. It is very only to its acceptance that there are no likely that UK graduates will still need to Fitness to Practise concerns that need apply for a training programme similar to consideration. Provisional registration is the current Foundation Programme and time limited to a maximum of three years that places on this programme may not and 30 days (1125 days in total). After this be guaranteed for every UK graduate. time period your provisional registration will normally expire. MEDICAL LICENSING ASSESSMENT (FOR GRADUATES FOUNDATION PROGRAMME FROM 2024 ONWARDS) Medical school graduates continue to The General Medical Council is introducing train for two years while working as junior a Medical Licensing Assessment – the doctors in the NHS, in Foundation Year MLA. The MLA will create a demonstration 1 and Foundation Year 2 (FY1 and FY2) that anyone obtaining registration with a posts. This two-year foundation period licence to practise medicine in the UK has forms a bridge for newly qualified doctors met a common threshold for safe practice. between medical school and specialist training. Trainees gain experience in a To obtain a PMQ, graduates from 2024 variety of healthcare settings, including onwards will need to have a degree hospitals and GP surgeries. that includes a pass in both parts of the MLA. One part will be a test of applied To obtain a Foundation Year 1 post you knowledge (the AKT), set by the General will need to apply during the final year Medical Council and held at your medical of your undergraduate course through school. The other will be an assessment the UK Foundation Programme Office of your clinical and professional skills selection scheme, which allocates these delivered by your medical school (the posts to graduates on a competitive basis. CPSA). Each school’s CPSA must meet General Medical Council-set quality Successful completion of the Foundation assurance requirements. Year 1 programme is normally achieved within 12 months and is marked by the The MLA will test what doctors are likely award of a Certificate of Experience. to encounter in early practice and what ’s You will then be eligible to apply for full essential for safe practice. It intentionally registration with the General Medical will not cover the whole of a medical Council. You need full registration with school curriculum. So, you will also a licence to practise for unsupervised need to meet your university’s degree medical practice in the NHS or private requirements. You can find out more practice in the UK. about the MLA for UK students on the General Medical Council’s website. In North and East Yorkshire, Foundation training is coordinated by the North Although this information is currently Yorkshire East Coast Foundation School, correct, please note that regulations in 50 Medicine Undergraduate Prospectus 2022 one of three sub-deaneries within the this area may change from time to time. hyms.ac.uk 51 DISCOVER MORE AT ONE OF OUR UPCOMING OPEN DAYS.

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