Year 3 Student Doctors (Liverpool)

The MBChB curriculum provides an opportunity to further enhance all clinical placements, based on student evaluations, quality visits and the changing face of healthcare practice. The School of Medicine feel this model allows students to get the very best clinical experience across all partner sites, with improved supervision and feedback opportunities.

Year 3 consists of 7 integrated placements, each of four weeks:

▪ Medicine A (Cardiology, Respiratory, Dermatology)

▪ Medicine B (Gastroenterology, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Infection & Infectious Diseases)

▪ Obstetrics & Gynaecology

▪ Paediatrics

▪ General Practice (GP)

▪ Surgery A (Upper GI and Colorectal Surgery, Urology, Breast Surgery)

▪ Surgery B (Trauma & Orthopaedics, Vascular Surgery)

Each placement will have focused learning activities but across the year students are expected to try and integrate their patient assessment to understand how the history, examination and investigations build up a clinical picture and diagnosis. Equally, many of the ‘core conditions’ on clinical placements do not exist in isolation. Primary, community and acute hospital settings give students an opportunity to integrate practice and see the full picture of patient care.

All minimum numbers (activities) are required to be completed for student doctors to progress to their next year of studies. Recommended numbers are considered to be an appropriate number for student doctors to adequately prepare for their clinical examinations and future practice as a junior doctor.

If you would like further information on the Y3 Curriculum please contact the undergraduate admin team on: Wih-tr.undergraduatecentre@nhs.net