Undergraduate Medical Education
As a Teaching Hospital, UHSM is closely affiliated to the University of Manchester and we are responsible for the training of approximately 400 medical students at any one time. The University of Manchester Medical School is the largest Medical School in the UK.
We organise and deliver the training for students in their clinical years (Year 3 to 5) of their course and also take them for early experience in the first two years where they are introduced to the clinical environment for short periods.
UHSM is one of the four Teaching Hospitals responsible for training University of Manchester medical students and there are approximately one hundred and thirty students in each of the three years we are responsible for. We also send our South Sector students to our two associated Teaching Hospitals - Stepping Hill Hospital and Leighton Hospital, Crewe and also our associated DGH - Macclesfield District General.
The Manchester MB ChB course was one of the pioneers for Problem Based Learning and was one of the first to introduce this approach in 1998. A new curriculum has now been designed still incorporating Problem Based Learning and it is gradually being introduced in order to keep us at the forefront of medical education.
Key aspects of our work
- - Emphasis on student support, with a Hospital Dean and Associate Hospital Dean for Student Support and Student Support Advisor dedicated to this role. We hold two student surgery sessions a week and have close links with the University of Manchester pastoral and occupational health services.
- - Our clinical skills unit is extensive, supported by four clinical skills tutors, a skills lab technician and AV technician. We have plans to extend this to create a hi-tech suite, incorporating advanced methods of situational training for all UHSM staff. Click here to see more.
- - Renowned for communication skills education, supported by remedial training, and moves to pilot the use of actors and podcasts as teaching aids.
- - In the 2010/11 Academic Year, all our Final Year students passed their examinations successfully, and will enter Foundation Programmes as junior doctors both in the North West and around the rest of the country.