Leicester Medical School runs a five-year MBChB and a four-year accelerated MBChB for graduates with significant experience of working in a caring role. Our degrees take place in an unrivalled learning environment for you to acquire the knowledge and skills required to practise medicine in the new millennium. Both curricula are highly integrated, both ‘horizontally’ so that disciplines within medicine are learned together, and ‘vertically’ in that clinical work and relevance are introduced from the beginning. They are divided into two phases. Phase 1 lays foundations that are built upon by full-time clinical work in Phase 2. Phase 1 lasts two and a half years for the five-year course, and one and a half years for the four-year course. Phase 2 is exactly the same for both curricula. "As far as the General Medical Council is concerned, the training of students at Leicester is a splendid example of how we want young doctors to be equipped to handle society's medical problems."

At the end of the undergraduate course you will receive your MBChB degrees, which is a primary medical qualification (PMQ). Holding a PMQ entitles you to provisional registration with the General Medical Council. Provisionally registered doctors can only practise in approved Foundation Year 1 posts: the law does not allow provisionally registered doctors to undertake any other type of work. To obtain a Foundation Year 1 post you will need to apply during the final year of your undergraduate course through the UK Foundation Programme Office selection scheme, which allocates these posts to graduates on a competitive basis. So far, all suitably qualified UK graduates have found a place on the Foundation Year 1 programme, but this cannot be guaranteed, for instance if there were to be an excessive number of competitive applications from non-UK graduates. Successful completion of the Foundation Year 1 programme is normally achieved within 12 months and is marked by the award of a Certificate of Experience. You will then be eligible to apply for full registration with the General Medical Council. You need full registration with a licence to practise for unsupervised medical practice in the NHS or private practice in the UK.