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Programme code | 8MDYF014U |
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Programme type | Conjoined Degree |
Programme director(s) |
David Cahill
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Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
School/department | Health Sciences Faculty Office |
Teaching institution | University of Bristol |
Awarding institution | University of Bristol |
Mode of study | Full Time |
Programme length | 4 years (full time) |
This programme aims to develop students to graduate and be doctors with excellent understanding of the knowledge skills and behaviours underpinning the medical profession. They will be the medical innovators, leaders and educators of the future. We achieve this through formal lectures, seminars and tutorials, clinical exposure and personal scientific study. Although delivered initially largely in the University in the first two years, a signature feature of the Bristol MB ChB programme is that, from Year 3, the programme is delivered through our enhanced teaching environments in local NHS trusts (called Academies).
The MB ChB programmes offer education, professional training and experience in a diverse environment to students from a variety of backgrounds, to enable them to attain their academic potential, leading to registration with a professional body (GMC) and thereby providing the foundation for a variety of careers within the medical profession
We aim to:
have a programme which has a distinctly individual style, but which encompasses appropriately the competencies and educational outcomes required to be compliant with most recent guidelines for professional medical undergraduate training (Tomorrow’s Doctors, GMC 2009)
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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The MB ChB Programme has a number of units over the 5 year programme but there are in addition six vertical themes which run alongside these, spanning all the years to ensure these important parts of the programme are delivered. The vertical studies referred to in the sections above are:
Lectures and associated learning activities during these Units and Vertical Studies: These paragraphs pertain equally to all sections. There is an overall trend over the five year programme whereby the learning and teaching is delivered in the first 2 years largely within the University using lectures, tutorials seminars, practical laboratory work, e-learning, independent project work (called Student Selected Components) with some exposure to primary and secondary care (8 half-days in Year 1, 4 weeks in Year 2). In Years 3-5, there is a considerable change in approach and structures: fewer formal lectures, much more e-learning, tutorials and seminars in groups, practical work in clinical skills laboratories, emphasis on teaching on wards and outpatient environments, sometimes in dedicated teaching clinics. There is a much greater emphasis in self directed learning and independent project work (Student Selected Components) some of which is related to the areas of teaching being currently covered, some of which can be on a wider variety of medically related subjects. In Years 1 and 2, the proportion of time spent in face to face teaching is more than 70%; by Year 5, much of the time is self directed and three may be up to 10% of the time spent in face to face teaching. |
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Summative and formative assessments including:
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Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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Lectures and associated learning activities during these Units and Vertical Studies. See above. |
Methods of Assessment | |
Formative and Summative assessment including:
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Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning and Teaching Methods |
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Lectures and associated learning activities during these Units and Vertical Studies. See above. |
Methods of Assessment | |
Formative and Summative assessment including:
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Statement of expectations from the students at each level of the programme as it/they develop year on year.
Level C/4 - Certificate |
The first year (Phase 1) is designed: To build on and consolidate students’ prior educational experience of science To broaden awareness of the social factors relating to disease The programme recognises that this awareness and understanding may differ widely between individuals. By the end of the Phase 1 students should have:
understand, explore and reflect on the functioning of the body in health and disease as delivered in Phase 2.
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Level I/5 - Intermediate |
Phase 2 which extends from Term 3 of Year 1 through to the end of Year 3 provides the main core teaching in relation to the functional Systems of the Body in health and disease. Although this phase is a continuum the emphasis in Years 1 & 2 is more on the core knowledge whereas in Year 3 it is more on application and skills development in clinical settings. By the end of Year 3 students should have:
continued access to patients. (An unclassified BSc may be awarded at this stage to students who have the required marks and who wish to terminate their studies in medicine or for those for whom the Faculty Board of Examiners consider it is inappropriate to continue in a professional programme). |
Level H/6 - Honours |
Phase 3 (Years 4 & 5) extends the opportunities for students to experience speciality areas in medicine, to gain greater awareness of health care provision in hospital and the community, to be aware of the current legislation and good practice, and to prepare for their first F1 job. By the end of the Programme students will have:
And should have:
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The intended learning outcome mapping document shows which mandatory units contribute towards each programme intended learning outcome.
For information on the admissions requirements for this programme please see details in the undergraduate prospectus at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/prospectus/undergraduate/ or contact the relevant academic department.
Workload Statement
Full time attendance is compulsory unless absence is formally approved.
Years 1 & 2 consist of a 30 week academic year which follows the standard University terms. Academic activities are timetabled throughout the 5-day week, with the exception of Wednesday afternoons. In Year 1 a student can expect an average of 21 hours of contact teaching per week. The Faculty anticipates that a student will spend a further 20 hours a week on preparation of coursework and self-directed learning (this may vary with the ability of the student). In the second year of the programme the contact time falls to about 16 hours per week on average, as greater emphasis is placed on individual coursework (projects) and self directed learning.
In the clinical-years (Yrs 3-5) the teaching year is extended and averages 42 weeks per year. The month of August is a vacation period, free of teaching, and the standard National holidays are honoured; the final year finishes in June with graduation in July. Clinical activities take place from Monday-Friday (between 08.00-18.00), and occasionally students are expected to stay late, or overnight, to observe out-of-hours activities. Year 3 students may request permission to be absent on Wednesday afternoons, On average in the clinical-years less than 10% of the year is lecture-based teaching, but a further 35% is staff-led teaching in clinical settings. The remainder of the time is set aside for students to develop their clinical skills, to do project work and to do preparative and reflective self-directed learning.
Assessment Statement
Please select the following links for statements about assessment. This is University of Bristol access only.
We believe that our Anatomy teaching experience, competitive intercalation, our Clinical Academies and our vertical studies are some of the important features which make our programme unique.
Anatomy teaching offers a range of experiences for students on the MB ChB programme in years 1 and 2: in the Centre for Comparative and Clinical Anatomy, our students use the Comparative Morphology Centre the main facility for preclinical medical sciences teaching in anatomy and the Clinical Anatomy Suite, a state-of-the-art facility staffed with anatomists and medically-qualified demonstrators, with access to embalmed and fresh cadavers together with the Human Online Resource for Anatomical Cross sectional Education (H.O.R.A.C.E.).
About 40% of our students will undertake an intercalated degree, usually between Years 2 and 3. Entry to these programmes is limited to students performing at a high level (gaining 60% or more on average in their first two years). Intercalation offers several advantages to students: it allows students to study an area of interest in greater depth and develop specialist interest and knowledge; it currently gains extra points for matching for jobs in the first two years after graduation, and may in addition give opportunities for presenting work at national and international conferences. Currently we offer 17 different topics, mostly in areas of medical science such as Anatomical Science, Human Musculoskeletal Science, and Pathology & Microbiology but also in International Health, Bioethics and in the Faculty of Arts, Medical Humanities.
A pioneering and distinctive element of the MB ChB course in Bristol is the way in which we use our clinical attachments. We have seven hospital and primary care bases which we use; we call these Clinical Academies (Bath, Bristol North, Bristol South, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Somerset, and Swindon). Students will spend the vast majority of their clinical years in these academies, where they will have much of their formal teaching and all of their clinical teaching. The first two years of the 5 year course are largely in Bristol, with some primary care attachments in the greater Bristol area in Years 1 and 2, and attachments in hospitals in Year 2, to assist the transition to clinical teaching in Year 3. Students would normally expect to spend half of each clinical year in a Bristol academy and the other half in a non-Bristol setting. Moving through almost all the academies provides students with exposure to the rich diversity of disease processes and cultural differences found in the various city, urban and rural environments.
Our Vertical Studies are overarching themes which encompass aspects of professional development and maturation which span the five years of the programme. These are designed to ensure that the areas covered, while generally not assessed formally, are included throughout the programme, embedded with the Units of the Programme and linking between them. The vertical studies are Disability, disadvantage and diversity ; Consultation and Procedural Skills; Ethics and Law in Medicine; Evidence Based Medicine and Public Health; Personal, Professional and Interprofessional Development; and Medical Humanities and Whole Person Care.
The Medical School website, http://www.bris.ac.uk/medical-school/ and particularly, the section for new and prospective students (http://www.bris.ac.uk/medical-school/prospective-students/ ) gives insight into what the programme, the teaching opportunities and the activities at our medical school.
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | |
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Introduction to Clinical Skills | MEDI22121 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Human Basis of Medicine | MEDI11110 | 0 | Mandatory | TB-4 |
Systems of the Body 2 | MEDI20003 | 0 | Mandatory | TB-1 |
Systems of the Body 3 | MEDI20004 | 0 | Mandatory | TB-2 |
Year 2 - Disability, disadvantage and diversity vertical theme | MEDI20002 | 0 | Mandatory | TB-4 |
Year 1 - HBOM - Whole Person Care element | MEDI10001 | 0 | Mandatory | TB-4 |
Year 1 - HBOM - Ethics and Law in Medicine element | MEDI10002 | 0 | Mandatory | TB-4 |
Year 1 - HBOM - Society Health & Medicine element | MEDI10003 | 0 | Mandatory | TB-1 |
Year 1 - HBOM - Clinical Epidemiology element | MEDI10004 | 0 | Mandatory | TB-4 |
Year 1 - HBOM - Introduction to Primary Care element | MEDI10005 | 0 | Mandatory | TB-4 |
Systems of the Body 1 | MEDI10006 | 0 | Mandatory | TB-2 |
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Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | |
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Medicine and Surgery A Not available in this year | MEDI23110 | 0 | Mandatory | |
Medicine and Surgery B Not available in this year | MEDI23120 | 0 | Mandatory | |
Musculoskeletal Diseases, Emergency Medicine and Ophthalmology | MEDI23140 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Year 3 External SSC | MEDI33150 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Pathology & Ethics | MEDI30007 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Year 2 Written assessment Not available in this year | MEDI20007 | 0 | Mandatory | |
Year 2 Form & Function assessment | MEDI20008 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Diploma in Higher Education | 0 |
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | |
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Learning in the Hospital Environment (LiTHE) | MEDI20006 | 0 | Mandatory | TB-4 |
Community Orientated Medical Practice 1 | MEDI34110 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Community Orientated Medical Practice 2 | MEDI34120 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Reproductive Health and Care of the Newborn | MEDI34130 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Year 4 External SSC | MEDI34150 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Psychiatry, Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care | MEDI30017 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Combined Year 4 OSCE | MEDI30014 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Year 3 Written Paper 1 | MEDI30027 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Year 3 OSCE assessment | MEDI30024 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Year 3 Ethics assessment | MEDI30020 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Year 3 Junior Medicine & Surgery | MEDI30021 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
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Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | |
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Senior Medicine and Surgery | MEDI35180 | 0 | Mandatory | TB-1 |
Preparing for Professional Practice Not available in this year | MEDI35190 | 0 | Mandatory | |
Elective SSC | MEDI35110 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Clerking Portfolio | MEDI30016 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Year 4 Written Assessment Not available in this year | MEDI30022 | 0 | Mandatory | |
Final year Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) | BRMS30003 | 0 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Medicine MBChB Graduate Entry | 0 |
Unit Pass Mark for Professional Programmes (MBChB, BDS, BVSc): 50 out of 100
For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.
Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for Gateway programmes.
All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.
Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.
The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).
The pass mark for the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine and Dentistry is 50 out of 100. The classification of a degree in the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry is provided in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
Please note: This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if he/she takes full advantage of the learning opportunities that are provided.
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