Your acquisition of knowledge and skills progress throughout the degree, from learning underpinning scientific principles in your first year, through to their medical application and undertaking a specialist research project as part of your final year.
A range of optional modules allow you to choose a path that reflects your personal interests and career ambitions.
Through a number of short clinical and research-based placements in healthcare and research environments, you will gain vibrant first-hand experiences of how innovative research can improve patient health. These experiential placements also help you develop a deeper insight into your own possible professional career opportunities and aspirations.
Your employability can be further enhanced by applying for the programme that includes a Professional Training Year. This offers you the opportunity to gain invaluable professional experience working within a cutting edge clinical research team in a university or NHS research laboratory, biotechnology or pharmaceutical company.
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Professional Training Year | Final year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core modules | Core modules | Core modules | Core modules |
| Expanding Horizons 1 | Expanding Horizons 2 | Expanding Horizons 3: Learning from the Professional Training Year | Expanding Horizons 4 |
| Integrated Clinical Science 1 | Integrated Clinical Science 2 | Integrated Clinical Science 3: PTY Placement and Report | Integrated Clinical Science 4 |
| Biochemistry | Genomics and Biotechnology | Option modules | |
| Genetics | Principles of Good Clinical Practice and Research | Cellular Basis of Immunity | |
| Fundamental Skills for Biosciences | Option modules | Frontiers in Molecular Cell Biology | |
| Introduction to Biotechnology | Analysis of Biological Macromolecules | Managing Clinical Trials: Putting Science into Practice | |
| Microbiology and Cell Biology | Advanced Cell Biology | Medical Biotechnology | |
| Human Molecular Biology | Medical Imaging: Principles and Applications | ||
| Medical and General Microbiology | Microbial Effectors of Disease | ||
| Molecular Basis of Infection | |||
| Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry |
