Medicine (Graduate entry)

Highlights

Greater emphasis on learning in primary care with increased clinical contact and award-winning clinical teaching at the University Health Board. A focus on community medicine with a range of clinical placements including a GP Surgery, teaching hospitals, mountain medicine and rural settings. All students receive training and certification in Life Support techniques and patient safety prior to undertaking clinical training.

Our VR room provides immersive scenario training allowing students to become competent at dealing with rare but urgent clinical problems. Our state of the art simulation facilities including Virtual Reality in our Simulation and Skills Centre. If you choose to study part of your course in Welsh you will be provided with a Welsh medium tutor.

Course overview

Our innovative Medicine: Graduate Entry (BMBS) course includes an introduction into medical education and leadership that will prepare graduates to educate, lead and accept and support leadership of others. Designed to prepare students for a career as a foundation doctor in the NHS, it is open to high-performing students from the four recognised feeder streams: BSc (Hons) Medical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University (B210) BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University (BC97) BMedSci (Hons), Medical Sciences, Bangor University (B100) BSc (Hons) Medical Sciences, University of South Wales (B901) We will also consider applications from graduates of degree programmes relevant to medical studies, please see the full entry requirements for information. You will experience a rich learning environment with greater emphasis on learning in Primary Care and at the heart of local communities, in keeping with the Welsh Government’s plan “A Healthier Wales.” The curriculum focuses on community medicine through a range of clinical placements in varied environments including: A full year at a GP Surgery Large teaching hospitals Mountain medicine Rural environments We will train you to be an excellent doctor for Wales and beyond by providing high quality teaching, and an inspiring learning experience based around increased clinical contact and award-winning clinical teaching at the University Health Board.

You will graduate as a skilled clinician who understands people and the environment in which we live. Working in close collaboration with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Primary Care providers across North Wales, our new programme maximises the opportunities from our diverse clinical settings, rural and urban. The Welsh language and cultural context of North Wales Communities have been embraced and considered to help to prepare you for your future medical practice.

Whilst our independent medical school is newly formed, we have a successful track record of training medical students. For more than four years we have been successfully delivering the Cardiff University C21 North Wales Medicine programme for Year 3 students, from 2019 for Year 2 to 5 graduate entry students, and from 2020 with Cardiff Year 1 students transferring to Bangor to complete their programme in North Wales. The first cohort of medical students that studied in North Wales, graduated at Cardiff University on 17 July 2023.

Based on this strong foundation, our newly established medical school will build on the success of the C21 North Wales programme in delivering first-class medical education. The North Wales Medical School curriculum has been academically validated by the Quality and Validation unit of Bangor University through a process involving external medical educational expertise. All UK medical schools are regularly reviewed by the General Medical Council (GMC), the professional regulator for Medicine responsible for ensuring high standards for medical education detailed in their document “Promoting excellence: standards for medical education and training”.

In addition, all new medical schools are subject to…