King's College London

Overview

The Graduate Entry Medicine Programme enables honours-degree biomedical/life science graduates and healthcare professionals with equivalent academic qualifications to study for a fast-track degree in medicine. The programme design enables you to bypass the first stage/year of a conventional medical degree to achieve qualification in four rather than five or six years.

Key benefits

Integrated medical science with clinical teaching; and focus on learning in close contact with patients.
Partner hospitals include Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals – three of the most renowned and busiest teaching hospitals in London.
Students benefit from clinical placements at district general hospitals located across the South of England and at over 350 general practices.
Learn from some of the world’s most influential clinicians and scientists, who are global leaders in life sciences and medical research.
A multi-faculty university giving you access to a breadth of non-core subjects including humanities and social sciences.
Twinned with leading medical schools around the world, providing opportunities for clinical exchanges during your elective module.
Accredited by the General Medical Council (GMC), this Primary Medical Qualification entitles the holder to apply to the GMC for registration to practise medicine in the UK.

Course essentials

The MBBS degree at King’s aims to train students to become:

• critical scientific thinkers
• collaborative leaders and innovators
• outstanding patient-centred clinicians
• excellent team-players
• educators and life-long learners
• resilient and adaptable professionals.

The MBBS curriculum is divided into three ‘Stages’. Although we offer four entry routes into Medicine, all our students follow the same fundamental MBBS curriculum.

The Graduate Entry Medicine (GEM) is our four-year fast-track entry route into medicine for biomedical/life science graduates and health professionals. We have been running this course since 2004, and our GEM has quickly become one of the most popular routes of its kind in the UK.

From the start of your course, you will be introduced to patients and clinicians. You will also work with other students destined for healthcare professions such as dentistry, nursing and midwifery. Inter- professional Education and team-based learning are an integral part of the course, developing your teamwork, communication, and an awareness of your ethical and professional responsibilities.

As a graduate with professional experience, you will by-pass the first stage/year of our conventional medicine degree and join us in the second stage/year 2. From this point you will follow the same programme as all our other medical students.

GEM years 1 and 2 brings together science and clinical practice in blocks organised around the human life-cycle and common pathological processes. It focuses on the care of patients with common conditions in a range of clinical settings. You will also follow patients for prolonged periods of time to learn how to deliver whole-person care. This stage is underpinned by study in biomedical and population sciences.

GEM years 3 and 4 is oriented towards future practice and includes the opportunity to undertake elective study abroad. You will also conduct quality improvement projects and develop skills to transform patient and population health at home and abroad. Inter-professional training and increasingly realistic simulation are important parts of the curriculum.

Through the programme there are a series of project modules, which offer a range of different learning, some of which can be adapted for student choice. We are looking to grow the range of Projects (and choice) we offer and this may result in changes to the Project modules in your programme.

Although this information is currently correct, you should be aware that regulations in this area may change from time to time.