MBChB Year 4 MED4004

  • Academic Session: 2025-26
  • School: School of Medicine Dentistry and Nursing
  • Credits: 120
  • Level: Level 4 (BDS, BVMS, MBChB)
  • Typically Offered: Runs Throughout Semesters 1 and 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No
  • Curriculum For Life: No

Short Description

MBChB Year 4 of the programme involves attending a series of full-time clinical placements in NHS hospitals and GP surgeries throughout the West of Scotland.

Timetable

Full-time programme, individualised placement timetables are made available to students.

Requirements of Entry

Successful completion of MBChB Year 3.

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

The summative assessment of MBChB Year 4 is comprised of:

 

MED4005 - MBChB Year 4 Student Selected Component

MED4050 - MBChB Year 4 Written Examination

MED4056 - MBChB Year 4 Clinical Examination

 

There will be a resit diet available for all summative assessments.

 

All students are required to pass their End of Block Assessment at the end of each clinical placement.

Main Assessment In: March

Course Aims

■ To provide learning and teaching opportunities to ensure students have the competencies and knowledge necessary to begin independent, effective and safe practice on graduation.

■ To provide learning and teaching opportunities to ensure students develop skills, professional and ethical values, and attitudes necessary to work as doctors.

■ To provide the opportunity for students to spend five weeks studying a topic of their choice to greater depth, thereby developing skills in data analysis, report writing and oral presentation as well as enhancing biomedical and clinical knowledge.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

Medical students must apply their knowledge and skills in a competent and ethical manner, and they must use their ability to provide leadership and to analyse complex and uncertain situations, supplemented by practical skills and procedures. The GMC outcomes for graduates sets out the knowledge, skills and behaviours that new UK medical graduates must be able to show.

 

By the end of this course, students will have progressed to the expected standard of a Day 1 Year 5 medical student.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

To be eligible to progress to MBChB Year 5 a student:

 

a) Must have attained a grade D3 or D0 where applicable in all MBChB Year 4 summative assessments.

b) Must attend and satisfactorily complete all MBChB Year 4 clinical placements.

c) Must normally pass their MBChB Year 4 Senior Elective.