This course provides an overview of important elements of biology and chemistry required for your later years of study. You’ll be fully supported with a tutorial system and your learning will be set in a clinical setting where appropriate. The Course The six-year A108 Medicine with a Foundation Year Course has been designed to widen access to higher education. If you want to study medicine but do not meet the normal requirements for entry onto A100 Medicine Course, both at A level and GCSE level and haven't studied at a higher education institution, this course could be the route to achieving your ambition. You must also meet certain widening participation criteria (please see "entry criteria"). This course is for students who have not been to university previously.

At the end of the six year undergraduate course you will receive your BM BS degree, which is a primary medical qualification (PMQ). Holding a PMQ entitles you to provisional registration with the General Medical Council, subject only to its acceptance that there are no Fitness to Practise concerns that need consideration. 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 increased number of competitive applications from non-UK graduates.