BMBS Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

• Benefit from close relationships with our principal NHS partners –University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Torbay and South Devon NHS FoundationTrust, Taunton & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and local General Practices– who have helped develop the course and provide wide-ranging placement opportunities
• Learn from real patients from the outset, with clinical placements starting in the first two weeks of Year 1. 
• Ensure your learning is always current and follows best practice, through the internationally renowned research that constantly feeds into our teaching, to reflect today’s dynamic healthcare delivery environment.
• Take part in expert-led discussions around clinical case studies and the latest medical science breakthroughs, through our Structured Small Groups teaching approach, including Enquiry Based Learning. These are also a great opportunity to learn from other students’ knowledge and experience.
• Practise your clinical and communication skills in the safe setting of our Clinical Skills Resource Centre (CSRC), which features specially designed replicas of hospital wards and emergency rooms, with high-specification patient-simulators.
• Develop your leadership and management skills, essential for effective teamwork and for ensuring high quality patient care.
• Utilise online systems to support your learning including the student logbook, custom-made for our students to access lecture notes, online assessment systems and lecture sessions. 
• Deepen your understanding of the structure and functionality of the human body with our Life Sciences Resource Centre (LSRC), which includes radiographic imaging and expert-led life science sessions.
• Choose the subjects that most interest you to study in-depth and build your own interests, specialisms, and research, scientific and analytical skills over the five years of your degree with our Special Study Units (SSUs). There are over 200 to choose from – see a sample list of current SSU titles.
• See how clinical medicine or research is practised in different social and cultural contexts in other parts of the South West, UK or the world, and further your experience through our elective opportunities.
• Exploreanother discipline at degree level – from history of medicine to music,psychology to statistics – through our Intercalateddegrees programme. Our BSc (Hons) Urgent and Emergency Care – developed with local emergency department/consultants, isa unique opportunity in the UK to work in and learn about the area of emergencycare alongside your medical degree. External intercalation opportunities arealso available.
  
• All students will spend Years 1 and 2 in Plymouth. In Years 3-5, students will spend at least one year either in Torbay, Taunton or Plymouth, and rotate around these sites. Travel to GP practices from these main hospital sites will also be required. 

We’re very proud of our National Student Survey (NSS) 2020 return showing an overall course satisfaction of 86 per cent and 94 per cent of students agreed that the course is intellectually stimulating*.