Year 1 GEP Student Doctors (Liverpool)

The University of Liverpool School of Medicine offers a 4-year graduate entry program (A101) for students with a prior degree, and a 5-year standard program (A100). The first year of the A101 program covers material typically taught in the first two years of the A100 program and is taught separately, although the programs converge for clinical years. 

Here's a breakdown: A101 (Graduate Entry) Program:

• Duration: 4 years. 
• Target Audience: Graduates with a degree in an experimental science subject. 
• Curriculum: Year 1 covers the foundational science and clinical skills that would typically be covered in the first two years of the standard A100 program, with a focus on separate teaching from the A100 program. 
• Convergence: Both A101 and A100 students will converge at the same point before entering the more clinically focused years. 
• Curriculum Structure: The curriculum follows a spiral model, introducing concepts at a basic level and revisiting them with increasing complexity

Placement overview for the Graduate Entry Programme

The A101 GEP Year 1 Clinical placement is an exciting, memorable, and sometimes daunting time. For many student doctors, this will be first time they have met with patients and future colleagues in a clinical environment. For others, who may be already qualified in a clinical profession or have who worked in a clinical environment, there is still an adjustment of focus to be made as the journey towards becoming a doctor begins in a tangible way.

Aims for the Placement

The experience of the ward or environment – the aim should be to begin to practise skills learnt in Communication for Clinical Practice (CCP) and Clinical Skills on real patients; this is an opportunity to practice taking histories, presenting histories, performing examinations and procedural skills and gain feedback from clinicians. The emphasis should NOT be on learning about the particular speciality of the clinical environment. This will be the focus in Years 3 -5 when students rotate around each specialty.

In GEP Year 1, the focus is on learning and practising these fundamental behaviours and skills.

The experience of the outpatient setting - attending clinics; allowing opportunity to observe an experienced doctor or other clinician in action.

Forming a relationship with a team - where possible, by attending the same ward for each of placement week students will start to feel comfortable with the team around them.

If you would like further information on the GEP please contact the undergraduate admin team on: Wih-tr.undergraduatecentre@nhs.net