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*These fees are for the 2023-24 academic year and are provided as a guideline. Fees for 2024-25 have not yet been set.
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.
More information about the course including entry requirements and selection criteria.
UCAS application deadline: 15 October
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:
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.
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
On successful completion of your first year you will join with Year 3 of the MBBS cohort. The amount of time spent in clinical placement is increased, you will be allocated to one of our partner trusts for placement blocks lasting from 6 – 10 weeks. You will return at regular intervals to the university for teaching blocks to support your learning in the clinical environment.
Clinical placements will be in a variety of locations including inner city hospitals such as the Royal London, Homerton, Newham, Whipps Cross, Queens. Placement at these sites are classified as in-firms and you would commute there every day.
You will also be placed at out-firms including Southend, Colchester and Princess Alexandra Hospitals. Most students will stay in hospital accommodation while on out-firms.
In year 4 you will have a placement in one of our mental health trusts as one of your blocks. You will also have primary care placements where you will build your clinical and consultation skills so that by year 5 you will be seeing patients independently under the supervision of your GP tutor.
Each site will offer a different experience, with different patient demographics and different specialist services.
Student Selected Components (SSCs)
You will also have the opportunity to explore clinical topics of particular interest to you in your Phase 2 Student Selected Components (SSCs)
The final year of the programme provides you with emergency medicine, intensive care, surgical and anaesthetics placements and an eight-week GP apprenticeship where you will see patients independently under the supervision of your GP tutor.
Throughout the year you’ll return to the medical school for teaching blocks.
You’ll complete your SSC programme, which may include spending time in a specialism not previously experienced or gaining a deeper understanding in an area that already interests you.
You will also complete your Intermediate Life Support qualification.
Elective
After your final examinations, you’ll complete a six-week elective in the UK or overseas. For many students, this is one of the most eagerly anticipated and memorable experiences at medical school – an opportunity to explore medicine in an entirely new environment, both socially and culturally.
Student assistantship
Following your elective, you’ll spend three weeks shadowing a current Foundation Year (FY1) doctor in the hospital where you’ll be based for your own FY1 training.
The elective period in your final year is self-funded.
For some electives the host institution charges up to £6,000, while others incur no additional expense. You’ll also need to factor in the cost of flights and accommodation. Placements taken within the UK can be a more financially viable option for students on a limited budget.
I chose to study medicine at Queen Mary because of the early patient contact, the excellent research facilities and the fact that it will open many doors for me in the future.
You’ll learn through:
Throughout the first two years you’ll apply your theoretical knowledge in problem-based learning sessions. Small groups of students and a facilitator work together to understand and explain a clinical scenario through teamwork and independent research.
You’ll have access to an extensive online medical knowledge base, which includes lecture notes from across the programme, papers and research.
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.
As a medical student you’ll learn across three Queen Mary campuses - Whitechapel, Mile End and West Smithfield, benefitting from the excellent resources of each to aid your studies:
We have recently opened a new satellite campus in the heart of Ilford. The space will be used for education purposes, enabling medical students to learn both in the classroom and mock ward environment.
Below is a brief overview – take a look at the full entry requirements.
Third decile or above.
You may apply in the final year of your degree. You must be predicted or have achieved at least an upper second class honours degree (or equivalent) in any subject. Degrees are divided into the following categories:
Please see our degree title checker for more information.
Find out more about our English language entry requirements, including the types of test we accept and the scores needed for entry to the programme.
You may also be able to meet the English language requirement for your programme by joining a summer pre-sessional programme before starting your degree.
We will take into account some of your personal circumstances and background when considering your application.
Home and EU students will need to self-fund the first £3,465 of your tuition fees in the first year. In subsequent years, you’ll receive a £3,465 bursary from the NHS.
Loans to cover the balance of your fees and your living costs are available to home and EU students from Student Finance England.
Read more about financial support for medical students.
Queen Mary offers a generous package of scholarships and bursaries, which currently benefits around 50 per cent of our undergraduates.
Find out what bursaries and scholarships are available to you.
Find out more about fees and funding.
We offer specialist support on all financial and welfare issues through our Advice and Counselling Service, which you can access as soon as you have applied for a place at Queen Mary.
Take a look at our Student Advice Guides which cover ways to finance your degree, including:
Most graduates work as doctors within the NHS, following training programmes in general practice or hospital medicine. Some of our overseas students return home to work.
A small number defer starting work as a doctor to pursue a specialist postgraduate degree.
Recent graduates have been hired by a range of NHS Trusts and hospitals in London including:
• Bart’s Health NHS Trust• Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust• Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust• Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust• St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Our graduates also work across the UK and beyond from Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust to Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and States of Jersey. Other destinations include the Ministry of Defence (MOD), Department of Health, and Health Education England (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2019/20).
You will have access to a bespoke careers programme, which includes a medical careers fair, talks by consultants and the opportunity to rotate through many different medical specialisms, covering both hospital and primary care.
In your final year we give you specific support in applying for foundation training.
The Queen Mary careers team can also offer:
Learn more about career support and development at Queen Mary.
The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry is one of the oldest medical schools in the UK.
We’re in an unrivalled position to offer you the very best student experience. You’ll be taught by experts who are passionately engaged with their subject, and our degrees have extremely high satisfaction rates – in the most recent National Student Survey, 92 per cent of our students were satisfied overall with the quality of their programme.
You'll also get exceptional support throughout your degree and as you transition into employment: we pride ourselves on being a friendly School, with excellent staff–student relationships and a General Medical Council-commended student support and mentoring programme.
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