Year by year
Year 1
Foundations & first encounters
• Systems‑based science
• Clinical and Community Practice
• Basic life support
• Cadaveric dissection
• Living anatomy & ultrasound
• Student‑Selected Components (SSCs)
Year 2
Building skills & perspectives
• Intermediate life support
• Venepuncture & phlebotomy
• Emergency assessment
• Four immersion weeks (GP, community care)
• Prosections
• Time for Dementia (Years 2–3)
Charlotte Taylor, Year 4
I also really like the way BSMS structures the course. So you spend the first two years building up a good foundation knowledge and then in the later years, you can apply all that knowledge into your clinical placements. You also get early exposure to clinical placements. From first year you do a day a week learning things like how to take a history, how to do examinations, how to talk to patients and I found that really helpful going into the later years because I felt really prepared to be on the wards.
Year 3
Rotations & responsibility
• Ward‑based attachments in General & Acute Medicine, Cardiology, Elderly Medicine, Psychiatry, Surgery (Emergency Medicine, Orthopaedics, Urology)
• Scientific Basis of Medicine
• Safe prescribing
Year 4
Specialism
• Rotations: GP; Ears, Nose and Throat, Ophthalmology & Neurology; Micro & Sexual Health; Rheumatology & Dermatology; Oncology, Haematology & Palliative Care; Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Paediatrics
• Individual Research Project
• Time for Autism
Year 5
Readiness for practice
• Longitudinal clinical attachments (Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Elderly, Surgery, Psychiatry)
• Prescribing Safety Assessment
• GMC Medical Licensing Assessment (Applied Knowledge Test + OSCE)
• Elective
• Foundation 0 preparation placement