The MBChB course at Liverpool: Encourages you to become an active learner and reflective practitioner Encourages you to become a holistic, patient-focused medical practitioner Integrates scientific principles of medicine with workplace learning in clinical settings Ensures a spiral curriculum in which themes are revisited throughout the length of the course, encouraging you to build on prior knowledge and skills Helps you develop the lifelong learning skills required in professional practice Promotes academic and leadership aspirations among our students to become more than competent practitioners. 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. In Years One and Two the emphasis of the course is on the basic and clinical sciences. These are taught using a systems approach. Each system will include physiology, biochemistry and anatomy lectures and practical sessions, clinical skills sessions where you will learn how to examine the systems studied as well as take part in simulation exercises, small group teaching and case based learning. Communication skills training prepares you for the clinical placements which start towards the end of Year One, increasing in length during Year Two. Years Three and Four have an increasing focus on clinical placement. This prepares you to learn to recognise health problems, develop the skills needed to diagnose illness and disease and manage patients. You rotate through a variety of hospital and community-based placements. These provide plenty of opportunities to interact with real patients in a variety of healthcare settings. These placements are complimented with consolidation weeks spent at the University to ensure you gain the most from your placement experiences through reflection on the key curriculum themes, as well as providing the opportunity to analyse the cases you have witnessed with clinicians. You complete your final written and OSCE (clinical examinations) assessments at the end of Year Four. The final year, Year Five, is spent gaining intensive clinical experience in hospitals and the community to prepare you for your career as a doctor.

Our programmes are for individuals who wish to become qualified medical practitioners. A diverse range of careers are open to you as a medical graduate, varying from medical science, perhaps laboratory-based research, through public health and the development of health care strategies to clinical practice in the hospital and community. Over half of qualified doctors are general practitioners but there are opportunities for higher speciality training posts with in excess of 100 medical specialities available. Salary details can be found at www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/working-in-the-nhs/pay-and-benefits Doctors can be found working in areas related to medicine such as ships doctors, international aid, medical journalism, research and medical education and there are other opportunities outside medicine such as law, management and the pharmaceutical industry. Work experience opportunities Clinical elective All students undergo a five-week clinical elective in which they explore a branch of medicine in greater depth. Most choose to undertake their electives outside the UK, to observe how medicine is practised in another country and to experience a different social, cultural and physical environment. Student exchange programme Opportunities also exist for you to study at another European Medical School. The University of Liverpool has strong links with universities in Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands. The exchange takes place in the clinical selective period in the fifth year. One objective is to provide Liverpool students with learning opportunities in clinical specialist subjects that they would not otherwise be studying in Liverpool. Postgraduate opportunities The Faculty is at the forefront of development in health care education, offering postgraduate taught programmes and a progressive research environment. Some of the programmes are designed to be studied part-time by individuals who are in relevant employment. In addition, the Faculty has an innovative modular Medical Science programme aimed at doctors in training, allowing students to take one or two modules as short courses or to study to the level of Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma or MSc. It also offers a range of opportunities for doctoral studies leading to MD and PhD. Qualifying you for life The programme offers considerable opportunities for students to learn, to practise and to be assessed in the following key ( transferable skills): Adopt the principles of lifelong learning Retrieve, manage and manipulate information by all means, including electronically Present information clearly in written, electronic and oral forms, and communicate ideas and arguments effectively Effectively manage time and resources and set priorities Apply the principles of scientific research and audit Study topics in depth Deal with uncertainty and work within a changing environment Teach effectively and act as a mentor to others Work effectively within a team