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The guides are designed to support your learning throughout the course and to help you to manage your own learning in each phase of the programme.
In addition to the curriculum common to all students, you have a choice of studies from a wide range of SSC (Student Selected Components), and you can even propose your own to reflect your own interests and needs. SSCs form one third of the course. You can also choose from a range of clinical attachments in Dundee, Tayside, and elsewhere in Scotland and the UK.
In your final year you have the opportunity to travel anywhere in the world to undertake a period of elective study.
Dundee has been at the forefront of new approaches to assessment in medical education, meeting the challenges posed by an integrated, outcome-based curriculum. A range of assessment methods is used including:
• online progress test allows you to identify areas on which to focus
• online assessments of knowledge and understanding • clinical examinations • portfolios of learning.
These are designed to assess your mastery of the curriculum outcomes, and test skills and attitudes as well as knowledge.
programme content • typical degree programme example
Phase 1 Semester 1, Year 1 This begins with an introduction to the 12 curriculum outcomes for a doctor that will provide the framework for learning throughout the curriculum.
Key principles, (anatomical, biomedical, disease mechanisms, psychosocial & safe medical practice), are made relevant through work with illustrative core clinical problems. The anatomy of the major body cavities is explored in the dissecting room. Basic clinical and communication skills are developed in general practice & the Clinical Skills Centre.
Student Selected Component (SSC) runs throughout Year 1
Phase 2 Semester 2 in Year 1, and Years 2 & 3 Normal & abnormal structure, function & behaviour in relation to clinical medicine are studied systematically in modules (e.g. haematology, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal). Use of core clinical problems allows a problem-orientated approach to learning in parallel with lectures, tutorials & a systematic training in clinical skills. Learning is integrated & vocational skills are developed through additional experiences on wards &in primary care.
A transition module at the end of Year 3 will prepare you for your studies on clinical attachments in Phase 3.
16 weeks of dedicated SSC time divided equally between Years 2 & 3
Option of undertaking one year BMSc degree to study one of the basic medical sciences in more depth, usually between Phases 2 & 3. (Courses are currently available in anatomy, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, developmental & molecular medicine, forensic medicine, medical microbiology, medical psychology, pharmacology & physiology.)
notes on entry requirements: 1. Applicants are expected to demonstrate some knowledge of, & commitment to, medicine. We encourage prospective students to have medically-related work or shadowing experience, to visit Dundee & find out about the course.
2. All Highers and A-Levels applicants must have obtained these qualifications at the first opportunity. Applications with re-taken qualifications are not considered.
3. If biology has not been passed at Higher or A-Level this subject must normally have been passed as indicated under entry requirements. An appropriate group of SQA (formerly SCOTVEC) National Certificate modules may be accepted as an alternative to Standard Grade biology. A good pass in Combined or Dual Science at GCSE may be accepted instead of a single GCSE pass in biology. A physics qualification is not an entry requirement. However, knowledge of physics is helpful to students on the course.
4. Human biology or social biology is accepted as an alternative to biology at Higher or A-Level.
5. The premedical year is designed for very able applicants who have a predominantly non-science background (i.e. those who have not studied either Higher or A-Level chemistry). Passing with satisfactory grade average guarantees your entry into the medical course itself.
Phase 3 Years 4 and 5 Application of the skills and knowledge acquired in the earlier phases is practised in a variety of clinical settings in hospital (e.g. medical, surgical, obstetric, child health, and psychiatric services) and in general practice. Study guides on the core clinical problems support the tasks required to demonstrate the curriculum outcomes have been achieved.
Year 4 - 10 x 4 week blocks (clinical attachments).
A six week elective period between Years 4 and 5 allows you to study medicine at a centre of your choice. An extended 4 month placement in Malawi is available.
In the final year only medical and surgical foundation apprenticeships and GP blocks are stipulated. The remaining four attachments are student selected and may include extended GP placements or specialist units within the UK.
Year 5 - 7 x 4 week blocks
Further details are available on the Medical School website:
www.dundee.ac.uk/medschool
6. All applications for 2012 must be made through the UCAS website (
www.ucas.ac.uk) by 15 October 2011.
7. Applicants for medicine may only list four medicine courses on the UCAS application.
8. As a general rule applicants presenting qualifications from countries other than the UK or Ireland are expected to have attained these at a level sufficient for entry to medical school in their home country. It would be helpful if UCAS referees’ reports could indicate what these requirements are.
9. Dundee University Medical School requires: • all applicants to sit the UK clinical aptitude test (UKCAT); and • all applicants (including overseas) to attend for interview prior to an offer of a place.
Dundee has developed its medical school interview process into a series of ‘mini interviews’. This reduces the risk of the whole interview getting off on the wrong foot, which occasionally happens with traditional formats. The same topics are covered but within bite size sections rather than a single discussion. This offers a number of separate opportunities to sell yourself. You can expect to be asked about your understanding of: a medical career, of the curriculum here in Dundee & current medical issues in the press, including ethical topics. In addition we will be looking to assess your communication skills & approach towards teamwork. Since its introduction, applications have expressed a preference for this system.
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