A 2.1 Honours degree in any discipline, not necessarily science-related, however, some post GCSE experience of Chemistry and Biology is desirable.
All applications are screened to ensure the minimum entry requirements are met. Applicants are expected to have performed to a satisfactory standard in the GAMSAT. Each application is scored independently by at least two assessors using specific criteria. Assessors are specifically looking for evidence of motivation and commitment to pursuing a career in medicine in applicants’ personal statements. Applicants achieving a sufficiently high score will be called for interview.
The interviews will take place from 31 January to 18 February 2011. The interview panel comprises interviewers from the medical profession and from the academic team at the medical school. Interviews are structured to enable the interviewers to assess candidates’ personal attributes, qualities, suitability for the course and potential to successfully complete the course and pursue a career in medicine.
Offers will be made from March onwards. No offers are made without interview.
Swansea University enjoys a wonderful seafront campus location, with easy access to the town centre and the Gower Peninsula which was Britain’s first area of outstanding natural beauty.
Swansea medical school has been delivering a programme for graduate entrants since 2004 and is known to have a team of enthusiastic staff delivering excellent teaching the Grove building which offers state of the art laboratories to learn anatomy and clinical methods, along with two newly refurbished lecture theatres and teaching rooms.
Swansea medical school offers students Learning Opportunities in the Clinical Setting (LOCS), which means that within the first few months of starting the course, students will meet real patients with real medical conditions.
The graduate entry course at Swansea is 4 year duration and consists of learning weeks interspersed with blocks of clinical placements. The learning week begins with a clinical presentation based on an actual person and introduces the problem in a standard clinical format with relevant images and diagnostic test results. Supporting this are anatomy sessions each week which are run in small groups led by clinicians using prosections and models. Lectures and tutorials are delivered around the case of the week covering the areas of clinical presentation, structure, function, pathology, treatment and the wider issues of medicine. Students then consolidate their knowledge through clinical exposure during LOCS and community based teaching.
LOCS is unique to Swansea and is based on structured activities where students accompany health professionals in their daily work to reinforce learning from teaching sessions and to help students integrate their knowledge and skills into clinical practice. Students are required to record their LOCS in a log book and reflect on what they have learned. Examples of LOCS are:
In Year 1 the case of the week is developed from simple classic cases and delivered by clinicians. In Year 2, students are expected to deliver cases as they become more complex. In Years 3 and 4, students will be analysing entire sets of patient records and learning weeks will be based within the medical environment and involve clinical contact.
For the first two year, students will largely be based in the School of Medicine and will also have clinical placements in the community and at a number of hospitals within the West Wales region, including Morriston, Singleton and Cefn Coed. In Years 3 & 4 students will spend the majority of their time in hospitals and on clinical placements throughout the West Wales region, including the Prince Phillip Hospital in Llanelli, Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen, Haverfordwest and Abertawe Bro-Morgannwg NHS University Trust as well as community-based placements.
Clinical placements consist of seven 5-week blocks throughout the 4-year programme (one in Year 1 and two in each of the last three years) which are free from lectures and tutorials and give students the opportunity to completely integrate into the primary or secondary care clinical environment. On clinical placements, students will:
Students’ performance will be assessed by their supervising clinician including their professional behaviour and their ability to interact with healthcare staff and patient.
Anatomy at Swansea is taught by clinical anatomists (often surgeons) and extends throughout the 4-year course from traditional taught anatomy in the first 2 years, to diagnostic reasoning where students examine scans and xrays. Anatomy is taught using prosections and models. The anatomy facilities at Swansea are new and modern.
EMQs at the end of each Semester. No ‘traditional’ finals in Year 4 as students are assessed at the end of each Semester with exams and assessments being of a cumulative nature.
Teaching at Swansea is delivered by lectures, tutorials, workshops, anatomy sessions LOCS.
The 6-week elective is taken at the end of Year 3 and is an opportunity for students to study any subject of interest at medical centres, research units or community practices anywhere in the world.
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The information on this page is correct as of August 2010
