Medicine (5-year MBChB)

At Manchester, students can create a bespoke MBChB programme suited to their areas of interest.

• Teaching facilities (image galleries)
  Snapshot of various base hospitals and community placement settings across the North West
• Cadavers used in anatomy
  Whole body dissection offered to medical students
• Flexible learning techniques
  With an emphasis on small group learning using clinical cases or problems stressing enquiry, discussion, self-education, development of critical thinking and communication skills
• Personal Excellence Path (PEP)
  The PEP framework provides complementary topics beyond the field of medicine for all our MBChB students.
• View video: PEP: 1st year
  Dr Bip Choudhury outlines what 1st year medics will do for the preliminary PEP module
• Option: Study in Europe
  An opportunity to develop foreign language skills and knowledge of European medicine
• Option: Take an intercalated degree
  Complete the final year of a BSc honours degree or undertake a Masters degree

Student perspectives

• View videos: Mb ChB students
  What do students think of the programme
• View videos: Intercalating medical students
  Profiles of students taking a year out to study a Masters degree in Maternal and Fetal Health
• Read also: David's blog (undergraduate medic)

• Entry requirements: international
• English language requirements
• Manchester International Society

All UK medical graduates are currently able to secure a place on a two-year foundation programme that leads to full registration with the General Medical Council. For more details of the possible careers in medicine, see:

• Career opportunities

All applicants should read the following document on criminal record disclosure:

• Criminal record disclosure (PDF, 75KB)

NB: Images shown include: © University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust
© Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust