Medicine (Graduate Entry)

Graduate Entry Medicine at Swansea University is one of just a handful of similar programmes of medical study in the UK open to graduates of any discipline.<br/><br/>This accelerated, four-year medical degree follows an innovative, integrated spiral curriculum designed to reflect the way in which clinicians approach patients and how patients present to doctors.<br/><br/>You will study the basic biomedical sciences in the context of clinical medicine, public health, pathology, therapeutics, ethics, and psycho-social issues in patient management.<br/><br/>Together with a strong focus on clinical and communication skills, you will develop the academic, practical, and personal qualities to practise medicine competently and with confidence.<br/><br/>You will have a high level of structured clinical contact as your studies progress, covering the following areas: clinical apprenticeships, including one week of nursing practice, junior assistantship, specialty attachments, including acute surgery, acute medicine, women’s health, child health, mental health, sub-specialities of medicine and surgery, and frailty, community-based learning, senior assistantship, shadowing F1 doctors and elective.<br/><br/>We are a relatively small medical school, so you will benefit from extensive contact with teaching staff and you will have contact with patients right from the first semester. You will join a university that is ranked 5th in the UK for Medicine according to the Times Good University Guide 2023.