Medicine and Surgery (Accelerated Programme) MB BS Honours
UCAS Code: A101 (4 Years)

Like our five-year MB BS (A100), this accelerated programme is divided into two phases:

  • Phase I spans 45 weeks: your course of study will provide you with an experience separate from, but equivalent to, Phase I of the five-year MB BS course
  • Phase II, which spans three years (Stages 3, 4 and 5). Phase II places further emphasis on personal and professional development, student choice and community-based medicine.

Phase I

Spanning 45 weeks, this Phase will provide you with an experience separate from, but equivalent to, Phase I of the five-year MB BS course.

Teaching and learning is organised into small study groups and is structured around the Units of Study covered in Phase I of the five-year course.

During Phase I students can take up the opportunity to gain additional early clinical experience by selecting from our bank of clinical experiences. 

Phase II (Stages 3, 4 and 5)

You are integrated into a single common pathway alongside students on our five-year course.

During Stage 3 and Stage 5 you are allocated to, and based in, one of four regional Clinical Base Units. See the Course Overview for details.

During Stage 3 you undertake an initial introduction to clinical practice and a series of essential junior rotations, which provide you with clinical experience in a range of specialities. The essential junior rotations in Stage 3 are:

  • Child Health
  • Chronic Illness, Disability and Rehabilitation
  • Infection and Clinical Practice
  • Mental Health
  • Women’s Health

During this time you will also spend a half day each week in general practice.

In Stage 4 you undertake Units of study that focus on investigation, therapeutics and public health within the following Units of Study:

  • Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • Clinical Sciences and Investigative Medicine
  • Patients, Doctors and Society

You follow this with an 18-week period of Student Selected Components and an 8 week Elective. See the Course Overview for details.

In the final year (Stage 5) you are based in a different Base Unit from that you were in during Stage 3. In Stage 5 you undertake a series of senior clinical rotations as below:

  • Child Health
  • Patients, Doctors and Society: Preparing for Practice
  • Primary Care
  • Mental Health
  • Women’s Health

This is followed by a 16 week block called Hospital Based Practice.

Following the final-year examination, you undertake a short preparatory ‘shadowing’ course to ease your transition from student to your Foundation Programme.

In accordance with ‘Tomorrow’s Doctors’ you undertake a study assistantship prior to the Foundation Year examinations.

On completion of your degree

You will be eligible for provisional registration with the General Medical Council (GMC).

Currently, all UK medical graduates are required to complete a two-year Foundation Programme of general clinical training. Once you have successfully completed the first year you are eligible for full registration with the GMC.

The majority of our students decide to apply to Foundation posts within the region. There are sufficient Foundation Programme places in the Northern Region for the majority of medical graduates.