Medicine - Graduate Entry Cardiff University

Overview

The  Medicine - Graduate Entry delivered at Cardiff University  is structured over four years to allow you to acquire knowledge, clinical skills and professional attitudes within an integrated spiral curriculum. Our aim is to produce great clinicians who understand people and the environment in which we live.

Key facts

This degree is only for those on our recognised feeder streams graduating with one of the following degrees:

• BSc (Hons) Medical Pharmacology Degree School of Medicine Cardiff University (B210)
• BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences Degree School of Biosciences Cardiff University (BC97)
• BMedSci Degree from the University of Bangor (B100)
• BSc (Hons) Medical Sciences Degree from the University of South Wales (B901)

All applicants to the A101 course need to sit the GAMSAT admissions exam prior to applying via UCAS. The results form part of the application assessment.

This course has been developed as part of Cardiff University’s commitment to widen access to Medicine. Small numbers of selected students from the feeder streams take additional modules during their first degree which make them eligible to apply to be accepted onto the 4 year course. You must graduate with a first or upper second class degree.

Having demonstrated appropriate knowledge and skills to enter the healthcare profession, you will pursue a course identical to Years 2 to 5 of the five year MBBCh course.

The programme initially focuses on building a platform for integrated clinical sciences. This is delivered in the classroom, practical classes, lectures and the virtual learning environment.  You learn to apply your knowledge in the clinical environment, both in hospital and community settings. 

The programme emphasises the importance of learning science in the clinical context, and the central place of the patient in a doctor’s work. We firmly believe that patients are at the heart of medical education and as such you will be introduced to patients from the first year. You will learn about common medical conditions from real patients, as well as their doctors, in authentic and impressively equipped facilities.

Distinctive features

Whilst an undergraduate at Cardiff University you will benefit from:

• An innovative spiral curriculum based on evidence gathered from across the world
• Teaching from internationally-renowned researchers and clinicians
• Excellent teaching facilities
• Having the  whole of Wales as your classroom, meaning you get a breadth of clinical experience from small, rural GP practices and small cottage hospitals to fast-paced city A&E departments and complex surgical specialties

• A smooth transfer into the first year of your career as a doctor.

Career prospects

The Medicine programme is recognised as a Primary Medical Qualification under the Medical Act, and graduates of the programme may apply for provisional registration with the General Medical Council. In 2017 100% of the School’s graduates from the MBBCh course had secured employment or engaged in further study within 6 months of graduation.

Job opportunities include but are not limited to:

• Acute Care
• Anaesthetics
• Clinical Academia
• Dermatologist
• Emergency Medicine
• Environmental Health Officer
• General Practice
• Genetic Counsellor
• Intensive Care
• Medicine
• Occupational Medicine
• Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Ophthalmology
• Paediatrics
• Pathology
• Psychiatry
• Public Health
• Radiology
• Registrar

Graduate careers

• Registrar
• General Practitoner
• Dermatologist
• Environmental Health Officer

Accreditation

• General Medical Council (GMC)