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This section aims to work through the mine field of different course types.
5/6 Year (non-abridged) Courses
text required. PBL 'v' traditional. Intergrated, systems, pure science based courses.
Graduate Entry Programmes
The following schools offered GEPs for 2004 entry:
Birmingham; Bristol; Cambridge; Kings College London (aka GKT); Leicester Warwick (LWMS); Liverpool; Newcastle; Nottingham; Oxford; QMUL (aka Barts and The London); Southampton; St Georges Hospital Medical School (SGHMS) and Swansea.
text required. defferent course lengths from 3.5 years through to 4.2 years. Comprehensive list required.
Foundation Years leading to 5/6 Year Courses.
The course at Kings Lynn is the most widely accepted, although many other places run good courses. Be careful though, not all 'access to medicine/science' courses are deemed as meeting academic entry requirements by different medical schools. Some courses are not accepted by any medicial schools.
Access courses are offered by:
College of West Anglia, King's Lynn:
http://www3.col-westanglia.ac.uk/opencms/export/cowasite/courses/higher/highereducationaccess.html
City College, Norwich:
http://www.ccn.ac.uk/site/cloud.asp?page=4&extra=523
Sussex Down's:
http://www.sussexdowns.ac.uk/xpurpose/feature_access-to-medicine.asp
Manchester College of Arts and Technology:
http://www.mancat.ac.uk/adult/courses/course_details.asp?location=%25&course=medicine&cat=oracle&submit=Find+a+course&index=CR5013%2D1&leaflet=103
Lambeth College:
http://www.lambethcollege.ac.uk/courses/courses.cfm?CourseID=295
Soton WAMP course:
http://www.som.soton.ac.uk/prospectus/undergrad/wamp.asp
St Georges Foundation to Medicine:
http://www.sghms.ac.uk/Courses/undergrad/foundation_med.htm
and
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/a103.htm#sel
University of Sheffield Foundation year to Medicine:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/prospectus/coursedetail.php?courseid=234&kw=medicine
Kings College London: Access to Medicine and Extended Medical Degree Programme:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/medicine/access/index.html
Widening Access Courses.
This is a fairly new style 6 year course for people from more disadvantaged back grounds. Grade requirements take into consideration poor schools, disruptive home life and give the most promising but compromised students the oportunity to read for a degree in medicine.
There are two such courses we are aware off:
WAMP at Southampton: http://www.som.soton.ac.uk/prospectus/undergrad/wamp.asp
Kings College London (GKT): Extended Medical Degree Programme: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/medicine/access/index.html
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