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Why not come and see Swansea for yourself? We have three Postgraduate Open Days each year (Autumn, Spring and Summer) which will give you the chance to find out more about our courses and funding, meet staff and students, and tour our outstanding seafront campus. See http:www.swansea.ac.ukpostgraduateopendays for dates and booking information _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW: The MB BCh [Wales] Graduate Entry Programme in Medicine is a fast-track medical course open to graduates of any discipline. We recognise that, as graduates, you will have already demonstrated study skills and will have greater experience of life, so are likely to be more adaptable and well suited to a ?fast track? medical course of intensive study. We believe that you will bring a broad life experience to your studies and ultimately your medical practice. The Swansea Graduate Entry Medical Programme will lead to the award of the MB BCh [Wales] degree, after 4 years of study. The programme is a close collaboration between University of Wales Swansea (UWS), with our colleagues at the University of Wales College of Medicine (UWCM). The programme has been adapted to suit to graduates and provides a 4-year ?fast track? version of the existing 5-year MB BCh [Wales] Your first 2 years of study at UWS will be delivered in two 46-week academic years. You will then take the Intermediate MB examinationwith the Year 3 medical students on the 5-year programme at UWCM. Following successful completion of the Intermediate MB examination, you will be registered and inducted into UWCM for the final two years that include hospital clinical attachments to the ?All-Wales? Clinical Training Scheme, to which Swansea is a significant contributor. WHAT WILL I STUDY? Year 1 and Year 2 at SWANSEA - Phase III of MB BCh [Wales] Core curriculum: - The sciences that underpin medicine including human biology, health in society, the mechanisms of disease, and the principles of therapeutics - The clinical skills you will need to be an effective doctor, the arts of communication and insightful clinical examination and introduction to diagnostic reasoning and therapeutic approaches Special Study Modules (SSMs): - You will do two personal projects that develop your understanding of the personal and family impacts of health events and disease - the birth of a child and its development in the first year - a patient with cancer Clinical Training: These skills play a vital role in the development of your professional competence, attitude and conduct. Clinically related studies will be delivered as: - Clinical demonstrations. - Attachments to either ward-based teams (medical or surgical) or primary care teams to aid your understanding of the roles of other professions in delivery of patient care - Communications and clinical skills training - Attachments within the specialties of Medicine, Surgery, and Neurology Locomotor will be key features. Year 3 and Year 4 of the Graduate Entry Programme in Medicine: These final two years are common to all medical students on MB BCh [Wales] Your clinical placements will be at sites throughout Wales including Swansea. SSMs for Years 3 and 4 will be the same as years 4 and 5 on the 5-year MB BCh [Wales] and include training as an optional attachment (elective) where you can have the opportunity of a placement within an overseas hospital. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: - Graduates who are classed as home students, i.e. within the UK or an EU country, are eligible to apply for admission to the Graduate Entry Programme in Medicine at UWS, and you will require: - A first degree in any subject at upper second class level or above. - Normally post-GCSE experience of either biology or chemistry (e.g. at A or AS level or as a University module). - Evidence of numeracy e.g. Mathematics at GCSE grade C or above. - Satisfactory performance in the GAMSAT - this is an aptitude test