Medicine (Graduate Entry)

Do you already have a science or health-related degree? Fast-track your MBBS at one of the UK’s top medical schools.

Queen Mary University of London's Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry is one of the oldest medical schools in the UK. We draw on our long experience to provide the best in modern medical training, with high-tech teaching facilities, and aim to prepare you for life as a qualified doctor.

Our strong core curriculum will equip you with clinical, communication, observation, teamwork and management skills. The curriculum is underpinned by research, linking your learning to the work of the faculty, from the laboratory bench to new drugs to public health interventions.

With less emphasis on traditional lectures, problem-based learning in small groups encourages you to take an independent approach to clinical scenarios. You’ll start seeing patients from your very first term, and progress to hospital and community placements.

You can follow your own interests by choosing student-selected components, from basic sciences to clinical specialities, community and public health, medical ethics and law.

We're excited to announce that Higher Education England have funded a project for the Graduate Entry Programme to enhance content delivery with a blended approach, utilising bespoke premium digital content alongside active and social learning principles.

Phase 1 (Year 1)

You will undertake eight modules in Year 1, covering themes including Digestion, Metabolism and Growth, Infection and Immunity, Human Sciences and Public Health.

You will be introduced to applied biological sciences and address key topics, including:

• Normal biological structure and function of cells, organs and body systems
• The effect of illness on people and their families
• The impact of environmental and social factors on health.

Our teaching methods have been chosen to help to prepare you for your working lives as doctors.  You will have lectures, practical anatomy teaching, small group work including PBL, clinical and communication skills teaching, and group projects.

Clinical placements

Clinical placements are an essential part of your development as a medical student and you will have have patient contact in every year. You will learn theory and skills through your training and be able to apply those in your clinical placements.

Clinical placements for GEP MBBS students at Queen Mary start in September you will spend every Thursday on clinical placement or learning clinical skills.

You will be allocated as a group of 8 work to a primary care setting where you will work with a GP tutor on a fortnightly basis through the year.  You will be introduced to the practice team, the practice area and most importantly the patients.  You will learn about the impact of ill health on the patient, their family and their community.

Your progress is monitored through a combination of continuous assessment and regular examinations, with final exams each year.

A scheme of merits and distinctions recognises excellent or outstanding performance across each sector of the curriculum. Prizes reward special ability both in the main examinations and in specialist subjects.