MBChB Medicine (Graduate Entry)

University of Liverpool has opted into the TEF and received a Silver award.Find out more about the TEF.The University of Liverpool School of Medicine aspires to create capable, confident and caring doctors equipped to practice in a 21st Century Healthcare Environment.The Liverpool MBChB curriculum aims to:• To ensure graduates have the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes to safely and ethically practice medicine.• To ensure graduates meet the outcomes set out in the GMC’s Promoting Excellence: standards for medical education and training (2015)• To equip graduates with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for a career in academic medicine.• To enable graduates to become lifelong learners committed to their own professional development.• The curriculum framework is based on the three main outcomes of Tomorrow’s Doctors (GMC 2009): the Doctor as Scholar and Scientist, the Doctor as Practitioner and the Doctor as Professional. Each of these outcomes has a series of vertical themes to create a truly spiral curriculum. Four horizontal themes cut across the vertical themes to provide stage appropriate coverage of these important themes within each vertical theme.The vertical themes which will run throughout the duration of the curriculum are The Science of Medicine, Research and Scholarship, The Chronically Ill Patient, The Acutely Ill Patient, Patient Safety, Leadership and Management and Professionalism. The four horizontal themes that will be integrated into each vertical theme are Psychology and Sociology as Applied to Medicine, Population Perspective (Public Health, Epidemiology and Evidence), Communication for Clinical Practice and Therapeutics.The spiral curriculum is based on 5 themes with content delivered over our 5 year programme. The themes are: Science and Scholarship, The Good Doctor, Core Skills, Patient in Primary Care and the Patient in secondary Care. Year 1 focusses on core clinical science with the introduction of pathology and disease in year 2. Years 3, 4 and 5 focus on becoming a practitioner and preparing for practice. The programme is accredited by the General Medical Council (GMC), this primary medical qualification entitles the holder to apply to the GMC for registration to practise medicine in the UK.This programme is available with a Year in China. The Year in China allows undergraduate students the opportunity to spend one year at our joint venture, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), following XJTLU’s BA China Studies degree classes. XJTLU is a fully English-speaking university, located in Suzhou. If you wish to study this programme with a Year in China please put the option code YC in the Further Choices section of your UCAS application form.