Pre-Health for Study Abroad

Designed for students looking to gain clinical experience prior to a career in health and allied health practices

Overview

Learn clinical skills and then actively participate in outreach clinics

Our Pre-Health Study Abroad Programme

This specialist programme is designed for visiting students who are planning careers across health and allied-health professions. It is offered as a single-semester programme, running in Fall, although students are still welcome to join us for the year. Students will live and study alongside British undergraduate students, and can continue to complete classes related to their major at their home institution.

Programme Components

Participating students will take the core Pre-Health module (class) that takes students through intensive clinical skills teaching, and then supports students to practice these skills in a clinical setting through outreach clinics. You will benefit from valuable direct patient interaction during clinics and assessment is through a portfolio of practice submission - just as is done in the medical field. This special opportunity provides unique direct interaction with the public, allowing students to appreciate what is involved with patient care. Students will begin honing their own clinical practice and reflecting on how their learning and interactions are formational for their future careers.

Modules

Visiting students create a full-time course-load choosing two or three additional modules alongside their core module.

Additional/elective modules are chosen based on student preferences and/or home university requirements. These might be offered within the Faculty of Medical Sciences or from a different academic department. Humanities and Sciences modules are also available, subject to timetabling. For example, we offer a Physics module that includes a curriculum that is appropriate for students preparing for the North American Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT).

Browse the entire Module Catalogue.

All Study Abroad students benefit from an impressive range of services and support during their time at Newcastle University. For information on dates, costs, university housing, and the application process and more visit: www.ncl.ac.uk/studyabroad

Please contact the Study Abroad Team for further information.

Core Module

The module includes clinical skills sessions, interprofessional education and experiential placements

Clinical Skills

Clinical skills sessions will provide students with the opportunity to develop their physical assessment skills across the cardiovascular system.

Communication and consultation skills sessions will challenge the student to recognize the wide range of patient needs arising from backgrounds, demographics and physical and mental conditions and require students to develop appropriate approaches to care that are inclusive and culturally competent.

Placements

Placements will help students develop a sense of identity as a developing healthcare professional as well as developing their understanding of the roles of different healthcare professionals and the role they place in a team in the area of public health. The sessions also provide students with the opportunity to perform skills or tasks independently in a clinical environment to continuously develop their confidence in their clinical knowledge, skills, competencies and professional decision making.

Assessment

The placement portfolio assessment will relate to the experiential placements especially on the various aspects of their work within different experiential environments and require evidence from work-based assessments and reflective activity.

Students will receive continuous verbal feedback during the module and will have adequate opportunity to gain evidence for the clinical skills portfolio/reflective account. This continuous feedback model will improve the student's confidence and provide feedback in a responsive manner to support their learning.