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Brighton & Sussex Medical School

Typical weeks

Typical weeks

Please note these timetables are based on the academic year 2021/22. 

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Year 1 timetable 

Monday

AM: Lectures and tutorials

PM: Lectures 

Tuesday

AM: Clinical practice lecture

PM: Primary or secondary care placement/clinical skills/small group work with clinical practice facilitators/workshops

Wednesday

AM: Academic skills tutorials/Student Selected Component

PM: Free time for study and/or extracurricular activities such as sport

Thursday

AM: Symposium – eg, patients come in to discuss how they have been affected by their condition and/or facilitated breakout sessions

PM: Practical class: dissection room/labs/living anatomy/microbiology

Friday

AM: Lectures

PM: Practical class: dissection room/ labs/living anatomy/microbiology

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Year 2 timetable 

Monday

AM: Lectures

PM: Practical class: dissection room/living anatomy/ultrasounds/labs

Tuesday

AM: Symposium: eg, patients come in to discuss how they have been affected by their condition and/or facilitated breakout sessions

PM: Practical class: living anatomy/ultrasounds/labs

Wednesday

AM: Lectures

PM: Time for Dementia/free time for study and/or extracurricular activities such as sport

Thursday

AM: Clinical practice lecture

PM: Primary or secondary care placement/clinical skills/small group work with clinical practice facilitators/workshops

Friday

AM: Lectures and tutorials

PM: Lectures

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Year 3 timetable

Monday

Lectures

Tuesday

Clinical rotations, eg, in General Medicine, Acute Medicine and Cardiology; Elderly Medicine and Psychiatry; Surgery, including Perioperative Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Orthopaedics and Urology

Wednesday 

Clinical rotations

Thursday

Clinical rotations

Friday

Clinical rotations

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Year 4 timetable

Monday

Individual Research Project (IRP) day – students work on their IRP/meet with their supervisor/collect data etc

Tuesday

Clinical rotations, eg, in GP; ENT, Ophthalmology and Neurology; Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Sexual Health; Rheumatology and Dermatology; Oncology, Haematology and Palliative Care; Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Paediatrics

Wednesday

Clinical rotations

Thursday

Clinical rotations

Friday

Clinical rotations

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Year 5 timetable

Monday

Clinical attachment (including ward rounds, clinics, lectures and seminars, clinical skills teaching), eg, in Medicine; Emergency Medicine; Elderly Medicine; Surgery; Psychiatry

Tuesday

Seminars

Wednesday

Clinical attachment

Thursday

Clinical attachment

Friday

Clinical attachment

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