where will I study?
University of Sussex
University of Brighton
Emerton Education Centre
On campus
For the first two years you will be based at the universities' adjoining parkland campuses at Falmer. Here you will be part of a rich academic community of other health professionals, scientists of every discipline and substantial groups in arts, history, languages, law, social sciences and engineering.
On-site amenities at Falmer include accommodation, restaurants and bars, a full range of learning resource centres and sports and fitness facilities.
Falmer is on the edge of Brighton and has direct pedestrian access into the planned South Downs National Park, long recognised as an area of outstanding natural beauty. It is very well served by local transport. In addition to good bus services, it has its own rail station with services to central Brighton (eight minutes) and the nearby county town of Lewes.
From Brighton, London is just one hour away by train and Gatwick Airport 30 minutes.
The two purpose-built teaching facilities for medicine at Falmer provide tutorial and seminar rooms, lecture theatres, clinical science laboratories and IT resource suites. Fully-equipped consultation rooms, identical to those used in GP surgeries and hospital out-patients departments, provide a setting in which to learn history-taking and examination. These are sited close to a clinical skills training area which also houses an advanced patient simulator, computer-controlled to represent normal and abnormal physiology and a realistic response to drugs.
Also located at Falmer are the Institute of Postgraduate Medicine and large biomedical science and health psychology research laboratories that have been recognised in successive HEFCE research assessment exercises as achieving international standards of excellence.
At the Royal Sussex County Hospital
In years 3 and 4 you will be based at the Audrey Emerton education centre at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. This provides comprehensive learning facilities including a wide-ranging health library, IT resources, pathology facilities, a clinical skills training area and teaching rooms for large and small group study.
Direct audio-visual links will be established between a number of teaching areas in the Emerton and ‘live’ clinical facilities including operating theatres.
You will undertake a range of clinical placements, mainly at the Royal Sussex but extending into other trust and primary care settings. The University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a full range of clinical specialties with major centres in cardiology/cardiovascular surgery, cancer, renal dialysis, neurosurgery and HIV medicine.
On regional attachment
In Year 5 you will undertake clinical attachments in two different regional locations which may include: Chichester, Eastbourne, Hastings, Haywards Heath, Redhill, Worthing and Brighton. Attachments will be available throughout the range of departments in an acute district general hospital, as well as community placements in mental health and general practice.
Pre-registration year
Although the pre-registration year can be undertaken anywhere in the country, BSMS graduates are encouraged to stay in the Brighton/Sussex area where they can take advantage of the postgraduate support and training offered by the School.