Medicine MBChB

Start date: September 2027

Course status: To be validated

Course attendance: Full-Time Only

Course duration: 5 Years

• A patient-centred curriculum, grounded in the local community, designed to help you become a competent, confident, caring and compassionate doctor 
• Early contact with patients, right from the first year of the course 
• Wide range of clinical placements in the community and excellent NHS hospitals in the Midlands of England 
• World-class student-centred support services aimed at ensuring learners reach their potential 
• High fidelity simulation, clinical skills, and innovative technologies to support small-group teaching and learning 

The University of Wolverhampton's five-year MBChB Medicine programme gives you everything you need to launch a confident and compassionate medical career. From your very first year, you'll be building the knowledge, clinical skills, and professional mindset that modern medicine demands - with patient-centred care and effective teamwork at the heart of everything you do. 

Through a series of integrated clinical placements running throughout your degree, you'll move beyond stimulated practice and into real healthcare environments, gaining practical experience that shapes you into a well-rounded and capable clinician. 

The programme unfolds over five years in two carefully structured phases. You'll begin by strengthening your scientific foundations, exploring how the body works, how disease develops, and how infection and pathological processes affect health. From there, your learning shifts increasingly into clinical settings, where you'll work directly with doctors and healthcare professionals across a rich variety of specialisms and locations, from cancer care to integrated medicine, in primary, community and hospital-based settings. 

Alongside clinical expertise, we'll help you develop into a thoughtful, independent professional - someone who thinks critically, leads with empathy, and never stops learning. By graduation, you won't just be ready for your Foundation Doctor role, you'll be equipped to truly excel in it. 

At the University of Wolverhampton, our patient-focussed and learner-centred Medicine MBChB programme is built around a set of core commitments to you and to the patients and communities you will one day serve. 

You will be taught by medical professionals and biomedical and social scientists from a wide range of practice, industry, and research backgrounds. During your time on campus, you will encounter a variety of learning and teaching methods, including: 

• Face-to-face and online lectures 

• Group work, case-based and problem-based learning 

• Seminars 

• Clinical skills training 

• Independent study 

• Practical sessions 

• Interactive workshops and tutorials 

• Online resources 

In addition to learning in the university setting, you spend time each year on a series of clinical placements, starting in Year 1. You’ll work under the supervision of a range of medical and healthcare professionals from our network of carefully selected NHS trusts, primary and community care providers. Serving an exceptionally diverse range of communities and settings, such as inner-city areas, towns and rural locations, each placement is designed to support you to work with a wide range of patients, health and care professionals and settings. This broad and varied set of experiences will provide you with an excellent foundation for your future medical career.  

As a new medical school, we are required to undergo quality assurance by the General Medical Council (UK) to ensure that our medical education is of a high standard and that we meet the requirements for all UK medical schools set out in “Promoting excellence: standards for medical education and training”. The Black Country Medical School is currently progressing through the various stages of the GMC's quality assurance process, which will culminate in approval for the University to award a Primary Medical Qualification (PMQ).    

New medical schools across the UK operate with a contingency partner as a normal part of medical education regulation. This collaborative arrangement is a safeguard for students and ensures continuity of study if exceptional circumstances were ever to occur. The University of Wolverhampton’s contingency partner is Aston University. 

Employability 

Graduates of our programme will be awarded a Primary Medical Qualification, recognised by the General Medical Council (UK).  As with all such degrees in the UK, you will be eligible to provisionally register with the General Medical Council (providing you meet all the GMC's Fitness to Practice requirements) and apply for Year 1 of the UK Foundation Programme (UKFPO). On successful completion of Foundation Year 1, you can then apply for full registration.  UK Foundation Training is a competitive 2-year integrated programme for newly qualified doctors eligible for provisional registration with the GMC. You can register your interest in a variety of rotations and settings.  

Currently, non-UK/non-EEA nationals who graduate from a UK medical school wishing to undertake a recognised, two-year full-time foundation programme (including academic programmes) can extend their Tier 4 visa to cover the duration of the training programme. Our qualified visa team will provide you with advice and support should you wish to take this career path. 

Following the Foundation programme, career prospects in Medicine are very varied and generally require further postgraduate medical training in the UK or overseas. UK doctors work across health services in primary, community and hospital settings. Specific career opportunities include: 

• General practice/family medicine 

• Acute medicine (emergency medicine, intensive care) 

• Internal medicine (e.g., cardiology, gastroenterology, haematology, chest medicine) 

• Surgical specialities (e.g., orthopaedics, urology, neurosurgery) 

• Anaesthetics 

• Psychiatry 

• Public health  

• Research 

Taking Your Career Overseas 

MBChB students can chose to continue their training overseas, subject to meeting the necessary entry criteria of the host country. If you decide to continue your training outside of the UK, you will need to refer to that country’s government body guidelines for details on eligibility, application, and processes.  

In 2027, we have 50 places for international students. 

Applicants must meet a combination of: 

• Academic requirements (set out below) 

• The minimum threshold mark in the UCAT (University Clinical Aptitude Test) Medicine admissions test. The UCAT total score is used in ranking to invite to interview and in making offers post interview. We take applications from candidates with SJT Bands 1-4. Note that the minimum threshold scores change annually and will be set above the national mean.  

• Non-academic requirements. These include: 

• Work experience - clinical work experience is not mandatory. We understand that it is difficult for some candidates to have work experience in a healthcare setting but we expect that they have looked at some of the online work experiences which are available. 

• Personal statement – the personal statement is not used for scoring or ranking applicants but may be used in the interviews (Multiple Mini Interviews) 

• Interview - Multiple Mini Interview (MMI). The MMIs are online and normally take place between December and March in your year of application.  

Successful applicants will also be required to clear occupational health, including immunisation and screening standards required by the UK Department of Health and apply for an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), payable by the applicant. International applicants will need to provide evidence from the country they are residing by following the advice provided on the DBS website. 

Please note: Applications for students will open in October 2026 for 2027 entry. 

Academic requirements 

Use of predicted grades 

We do not take predicted grades into consideration when ranking for calling to interview and for offers post interviews. 

Resit policy 

Applicants with resists for GCSEs, A Levels, or equivalent qualifications, and/or repeating an academic year, will be considered. Applicants undertaking re-sits must achieve their final qualification profile for consideration in no more than three academic years i.e., allowing for one re-sit year attempt only. 

For further information, please contact: InternationalAdmissions@wlv.ac.uk.