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Medicine involves long-term commitment and dedication. Studying at Kent and Medway Medical School offers you diverse career opportunities and experience to learn medicine across primary care, community and mental health settings, as well as the major medical and surgical specialities.
Our five-year medical degree, awarded jointly awarded with the University of Kent, leads to the qualification of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BM BS)*.
Kent and Medway Medical School builds on the existing high quality clinical teaching and research strengths of both universities and is working in partnership with Brighton and Sussex Medical School for support and quality assurance purposes.
Throughout the course, you will focus on how you apply your learning to clinical practice. You will undertake placements in a range of medical, surgical, primary care, and community settings. This may include a combination of face-to-face and digitally enhanced work. You will gain vital practical experience, develop clinical skills, and learn to work in collaboration as part of a multi-professional team.
As part of our innovative, integrated, and blended curriculum, you will learn in small groups and spend time with some of the best medical educators in their fields. You will learn anatomy in a modern anatomy suite, using human cadavers and radiological imaging, as well as through the use of cutting-edge digital technology.
It is also possible to take a year out and complete an additional degree as an intercalated degree after your third or fourth year of study.
GCSE
A* to B or 9 to 6 in five subjects which must include English language, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics or a double science.
A level
AAA/AAB which must include chemistry or biology, and one of either chemistry, biology, mathematics, psychology, physics, computing, or computer science. General studies and critical thinking are not accepted as a third A level.