- five-year degree programme
- order or download a prospectus
- open days
- frequently asked questions
- brightmed
- picture yourself
- international students
- applying to BSMS
- contact us
- campus life
‘I received scholarships of over £3000 from BSMS and other donors and spent my fourth-year elective at a rural missionary hospital in Zambia.
' I worked in the treatment room, outpatients and on the wards, performing ventricular taps, lumbar punctures and pleural taps, inserting nasogastric tubes, cannulating children, setting up drips and administering chemotherapy.
'I also collected data for my research project on infantile hydrocephalus. My experience in Zambia will stay with me for the rest of my life.’
Hazera Begum, year 5
assessment
BSMS has an integrated curriculum designed to develop your knowledge, clinical skills and professional approach throughout the degree and the variety of assessment methods used reflects this. Individual module assessments ensure that module objectives are met. These vary from short answer and essay examinations to practical assessment of communication and clinical skills and case presentations.
The main formal assessments are at the ends of year 3 and year 5. Each includes elements that test the integration of your clinical experience with your understanding of the underlying clinical and social sciences, including the reports from your family studies, your patient portfolio and your research project.
A range of other assessments will also be conducted during the programme, primarily to guide you in your learning.
Your personal portfolio, recording the skills and experience you have gained, will also form part of your assessment, in line with General Medical Council recommendations, and there will be opportunity for self-evaluation, particularly on presentational and related skills.
You will normally have an opportunity to retake any assessment element that you do not succeed in passing at the first attempt.