MBChB Medicine (6-year programme)
Entry requirements
A level: AAA in one sitting (required: Chemistry, one from Biology/Human Biology, Mathematics/Further Mathematics or Physics) IB: 38 points with 666 at HL
About this course
MBChB in MBChB Medicine (6-year programme), a medicine degree centred on clinical and academic training for medical practice. Core topics include Statistics and Clinical Skills. The programme runs over six years as a full-time course, involving on-campus study and clinical placements across Scotland. The first year covers foundational biomedical and social concepts through compulsory modules such as Biomedicine, Social and Ethical Aspects of Medicine (SEAM), Research and Evidence-Based Medicine (REBM), and Knowledge to Clinical Practice (KCP). Year 2 continues with Biomedicine, Social and Ethical Aspects of Medicine (SEAM), Research and Evidence-Based Medicine (REBM), and Knowledge to Clinical Practice (KCP). Year 5 includes specific clinical placements such as psychiatry, child life and health, and obstetrics and gynaecology. Year 6 focuses on advanced clinical experience through general and acute medicine, general practice, emergency medicine, and surgery.
Modules
- Biomedicine , which covers physiology and anatomy of various systems in an integrated way, in: body in motion sustaining life integrity command and control transitions nutrition and digestion renal and urology
- body in motion
- sustaining life
- integrity
- command and control
- transitions
- nutrition and digestion
- renal and urology
- Social and Ethical Aspects of Medicine (SEAM) , which covers: social determinants of illness meaning of illness experience of illness medical ethics public health health improvement health promotion
- social determinants of illness
- meaning of illness
- experience of illness
- medical ethics
- public health
- health improvement
- health promotion
- Research and Evidence-Based Medicine (REBM) , which covers: understanding information the role of evidence-based medicine hypothesis-driven and hypothesis-free research types of data evaluating interventions critical appraisal communication of research statistical reasoning medical informatics
- understanding information
- the role of evidence-based medicine
- hypothesis-driven and hypothesis-free research
- types of data
- evaluating interventions
- critical appraisal
- communication of research
- statistical reasoning
- medical informatics
- Knowledge to Clinical Practice (KCP) , which integrates Biomedicine, SEAM and REBM knowledge with patients' illness presentations in Year 1, and introduces you to clinical practice including history taking and examination in Year 2.
- Clinical and professional skills , which involves understanding of the importance of: communication empathy compassion well-being
- communication
- empathy
- compassion
- well-being
- Biomedicine
- Social and Ethical Aspects of Medicine (SEAM)
- Research and Evidence-Based Medicine (REBM)
- Knowledge to Clinical Practice (KCP)
- Clinical and professional skills
- psychiatry
- child life and health
- obstetrics and gynaecology
- general and acute medicine
- general practice
- emergency medicine
- surgery