The Graduate & Professional Entry (GPEP) MBBS is King’s four-year fast-track entry route into medicine for science graduates and health professionals. This programme celebrated its eleventh anniversary in 2015. Since its launch in 2004, GPEP has quickly become one of the most popular routes of its kind in the UK. The MBBS curriculum is currently divided into five phases over 5 years. During Years 1 and 2 students cover two phases. Phase 1 (10 weeks) which is composed of two strands that run concurrently. One strand provides the basic scientific background underpinning the knowledge required for a good understanding of clinical scenarios introduced in Phase 2, and the other, the Practice of Medicine strand, introduces students to the development of good clinical practice. Years 3 and 4 (Intensive Patient Contact) focus on clinical training, underpinned by science. Year 5 (Shadowing Practising Doctors) is vocationally-oriented and includes the opportunity to study abroad for an elective period. Each year contains elements from the core curriculum, as well as Special Study Components (SSCs), which offer a wide element of student choice. The SSCs are projects and short courses in medical, scientific and non-medical (for example humanities and languages) subjects. You will have considerable freedom in selecting from a wide range of approved modules. In a multi-faculty College such as King's we are very well placed to offer a varied range of SSCs, which can draw widely from the different Schools of the College. Possibilities exist to take SSCs not only from within basic medical sciences and clinical medicine but from the Schools of Biomedical Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering and Humanities; notably, many students also take modern language SSCs. There is, thus, considerable scope for you to widen and increase your knowledge.

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