Medicine: Graduate Entry Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery - BMBCh

The information provided on this page was correct at the time of publication (November 2024). For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucas.

This page is about the graduate-entry/accelerated medicine course (A101).

This course is an intensive four year medical course and has been designed for graduates who are trained in applied or experimental sciences.

The four-year graduate-entry/ accelerated course (UCAS code A101 BMBCh4) is open to graduates who already have a degree in an experimental science subject.

The course has a strong emphasis on academic medicine within a clinical context. We aim to produce doctors who are broadly educated in science and clinical practice, and whose clinical practice is informed by their scientific approach to medicine.

Many of the graduates from this course will choose careers in academic medicine: that is, in posts that combine medical research with clinical practice. Not all of our graduates will pursue research interests in later life, but we hope that all will bring a scientific approach to their thinking and to their practice at the bedside.

We recognise that graduates will wish to work on their own and explore areas that particularly interest them. The course aims to develop the skills that graduates have acquired in their first degree: there will be a relatively small amount of didactic lecturing, and plenty of time for private study and discussion of topics additional to core material. Exploration and appraisal of clinical and scientific literature, and its application to clinical practice, will feature strongly in both teaching and assessment.

This may be the right course for you, if you are:


- academically strong


- interested in the scientific basis of medical practice


- and have the self-discipline to plan your studies in such a way as to be able to cover a large and intensive syllabus by yourself.


If you fit this description, you will gain a great deal from Oxford's very strong academic and clinical teaching.

The first two years cover both basic medical science and clinical skills. The first year concentrates on science taught within a clinical context but with a gentle introduction to clinical practice, while the second year concentrates on clinical teaching with a smaller science component.

Graduates are encouraged to work at their own pace, and to pursue in depth those areas of medicine that particularly interest them. The final two years are shared with the six-year course. Students are fully integrated into the clinical course at this stage, and take the same final exams as candidates on the six-year course.

The accelerated (Graduate Entry) course (A101). For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucas