Our undergraduate programme is designed to develop the skills you will need to become an independent self-learner and to prepare you for postgraduate study and a lifetime of medical learning. At first, our structured learning environment provides you with clearly defined goals and direction, and new material is introduced and explained to you by teachers who are skilled at delivering and explaining information to large groups of students. However, as your experience and confidence develops and the programme progresses, our teaching and learning strategies encourage and ultimately require you to adopt increasing self-reliance and independence in your study and learning.
While teaching in lectures and in a variety of clinical settings remains of pivotal importance, a variety of other innovative methods are used, with the choice of method being carefully chosen to match our particular educational objectives.
You will be assessed in a variety of ways. The learning outcomes for the programme are defined in terms of:
and you are expected to demonstrate the appropriate level of attainment in each of these three domains. The assessment process is designed to encourage and reward transfer of learning from one Stage to the next, and equal emphasis is placed on in-course assessment and end-of-Stage examinations.
Upon successful completion of the entire programme you will be awarded Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MB BS), which will be conferred by Newcastle University.