Undergraduate courses: Medical degree - MBChB
Information for prospective undergraduates.
There are many attributes required to be a successful doctor. Perhaps the main ones are motivation and compassion but others include enthusiasm, stamina,
tenacity, initiative, courage, loyalty, excellence, resilience, ability to work in a team and a sense of humour. You need to have the capacity to deal with frustrations and disappointments and to be able to deal with a career that may have many highs and lows and on occasions be extremely stressful. You need the ability to be able to wind down and relax and to have hobbies and pastimes that will allow you to do so.
Medicine is the study of diseases affecting people. Its scope is vast, encompassing the causes, the nature and the treatment of disease. The course at Sheffield offers a broadly based but extensive education and training incorporating all the recommendations of the General Medical Council's report Tomorrow's Doctors (1993), while conserving the strengths of the pre existing curricula. The course leads to the professional qualification of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB). The MBChB programme that you may join has been designed to educate and train you so that you will become a doctor equipped with the clinical abilities, knowledge, attitudes and professional behaviours needed to become a junior hospital doctor. This preparation will also prepare you for your continued professional development after graduation.
The medical course at Sheffield aims: -
- To equip students with the essential personal and professional skills required throughout the rest of their course and in their
future careers, - To integrate the basic and clinical sciences throughout the course,
- To cultivate in students an attitude of curiosity and a desire for intellectual
exploration and critical evaluation.
The underlying philosophy of the curriculum is that all learning and teaching should be thought of from the perspective of the patient. A medical curriculum should include what a student needs to know, understand and be able to do in response to
the problems presented by patients in a range of health care settings. To achieve this the Sheffield medical course is based upon the approach shown in the diagram with the patient's needs at its centre.
The medical course in Sheffield is clinically led and gives students opportunities to start developing their clinical skills from the very start. It is designed around the common and important clinical conditions and uses an integrated learning and teaching approach that relates clinical medicine to the underlying medical sciences.
The two main themes that run throughout the course, Clinical Competencies and Medical Sciences are linked together by Integrated Learning Activities where students work in teams, and later in the course by themselves, to solve clinical problems. A combination of teaching approaches, including clinical teaching on the wards in hospitals, in clinics both in general practice and hospitals, lectures, seminars, tutorials, small group work, dissection, together with personal and professional development supported by experienced tutors and personal mentors helps ensure that graduates are well prepared for work in the National Health Service.
We hope these pages will assist you in deciding on where you would like to study. If you need further information, or would like to order our prospectus, please contact us.