Student Opportunities and Employability

Undergraduate Pathway's students undertake the compulsory module Doctors, Patients, and the Goals of Medicine (PM254), where students will be given healthcare-related placements and specialist preperation for applications to Graduate Entry Medicine alongside a guaranteed interview for our Graduate Entry Medicine course (subject to meeting the minimum entry requirements).

More information on the Medical School's Pathways to Medicine

Your degree programme may already give you an option to study or work abroad but in addition to this you can also consider an international summer programme.

• These programmes are open to all our undergraduate students and include culture and study tours, volunteering programmes and internships across destinations such as China, Zambia, South Korea, Japan, Europe and Canada. Programmes are typically 2 – 6 weeks long and funding is available. See our Summer Programmes for further information.
• MSci students may have the opportunity to spend time undertaking research in industrial or medical laboratories either in the UK or abroad.

We are currently developing a Year in Industry and hope to offer this to all Undergraduate Medical Science degrees.

Electives and Placements are available across the UK to Medicine and Physician Associate students.

International Placements

Medicine students alsp have internatioanl electives and placements available to them. If you are thinking of spending, time abroad head to the Go Global.

Gambia Link

Graduate Entry Medicine Gambia Medical Electives are a 2 week placement in a clinical setting in The Gambia, Africa. Year 2 and 3 students have the opportunity to undertake one of their formally assessed placements in a culturally and socioeconomically different country.

Students on this course have the opportunity to pursue dissertation research projects in a wide variety of medical physics topics, including projects that involve placements in the NHS or with industry partners