Graduate Entry Medicine University of Chester

Overview

This Graduate Entry Medicine from University of Chester has been designed to provide you with the underpinning scientific and clinical knowledge, skills and professional behaviours required of a 21st-century doctor. The course is structured into a series of core university and health and care placement blocks, which gradually introduce and prepare you for working with complex situations and more independently as a Foundation Doctor.

You will meet patients right from the early part of the course and this, plus our case-based learning approach, placements and simulation, provides a continuing focus on patient care. A strength of the University of Chester MBChB programme is the longitudinal integration of core themes throughout all four years of the course. This spiral curriculum approach integrates the introduction and consolidation of knowledge and skills appropriate to each stage of the course.

Job prospects

Being a doctor is not just about scientific knowledge, you must develop both professionally and personally throughout your career. The Professionalism and Personal Development strand runs throughout our curriculum with this in mind. Important aspects that you will explore include

• Teamworking

• Managing change and uncertainty

• Managing complexity

• Patient safety, including understanding how medical errors occur

• Leadership and management

• Time management and task prioritisation

• Becoming an effective teacher

• Managing your own wellbeing, developing resilience to stress

• Reflective thinking

• Learning to learn effectively