Medicine MBChB

Start date: September 2027

Course status: To be validated

Course attendance: Full-Time Only

Course duration: 5 Years

• World-class student-centred support services aimed at ensuring learners reach their potential
• Wide range of clinical placements in the community and excellent NHS hospitals in the Midlands of England
• High fidelity simulation, clinical skills and innovative technologies to support small-group teaching and learning
• A programme grounded in the local area, patient-centred and built around our core theme ‘The Human Condition’ which encompasses the four priority topics:
• Life Path – Birth, Growth, Maturity and Death
• Healthy Living – Work, Play and Retirement
• Healthy Emotions – Joy and Sadness
• Human Interactions – Teamwork, Conflict and Peace

The University of Wolverhampton's MBChB Medicine programme gives you everything you need to launch a confident and compassionate medical career. From your very first year, you'll be building the knowledge, clinical skills and professional mindset that modern medicine demands - with patient-centred care and effective teamwork at the heart of everything you do.

Through a series of integrated clinical placements running throughout your degree, you'll move beyond stimulated practice and into real healthcare environments, gaining practical experience that shapes you into a well-rounded and capable clinician.

The programme unfolds over five years in two carefully structured phases. You'll begin by strengthening your scientific foundations, exploring how the body works, how disease develops, and how infection and pathological processes affect health. From there, your learning shifts increasingly into clinical settings, where you'll work directly with doctors and healthcare professionals across a rich variety of specialisms, from cancer care to integrated medicine.

Alongside clinical expertise, we'll help you develop into a thoughtful, independent professional - someone who thinks critically, leads with empathy, and never stops learning. By graduation, you won't just be ready for your Foundation Doctor role, you'll be equipped to truly excel in it.

At the University of Wolverhampton, our Medicine MBChB programme is built around a set of core commitments to you and to the patients you will one day serve.

Patient safety at the core

You will be taught by medical professionals and basic scientists  from a wide range of practice, industry and research backgrounds. During your time on campus, you will encounter a variety of learning and teaching methods, including:

• Face-to-face and online lectures
• Group work and problem-based learning
• Seminars
• Clinical skills training
• Independent study
• Practical sessions
• Interactive workshops and tutorials
• Online resources

In addition to these learning methods, you will also spend time each year on a series of placements. You’ll work under the supervision of a range of medical and healthcare professionals from our network of carefully selected NHS trusts and primary care providers. Serving an exceptionally diverse range of communities and settings, such as inner-city areas, towns and rural locations, each placement will allow you to encounter a wide range of patients and experiences, giving you an excellent foundation for your future medical career. 

• Primary care (general practice)
• Acute medicine
• Internal medicine (e.g. cardiology, gastroenterology, haematology, chest medicine)
• Surgical specialities (e.g., orthopaedics, urology, neurosurgery)
• Psychiatry
• Research
• Ophthalmology, dermatology, ear, nose and throat, intensive care, anaesthetics)

Employability

Graduates of our programme will be awarded a Primary Medical Qualification, recognised by the General Medical Council (UK).  As with all such degrees in the UK, this allows graduates to apply for provisional registration with the GMC and, following a 1-year period of paid employment in an approved post (the Foundation Year 1), they can then apply for full registration.  Career prospects are varied and generally require further postgraduate medical training in the UK or overseas. Currently, non-UK/non-EEA nationals who graduate from a UK medical school wishing to undertake a recognised, two-year full-time foundation programme (including academic programmes) are eligible to extend their Tier 4 visa to cover the duration of the training programme. Our qualified visa team will be on hand to provide you with advice and support should you wish to take this career path.

On completion of the MBChB students can undertake UK Foundation Training which is a 2 year integrated programme for new qualified foundation doctors who are eligible for provisional registration with the GMC. You can register your interest in a variety of rotations and settings. Currently, non-UK/non-EEA nationals who graduate from a UK medical school wishing to undertake a recognised, two-year full-time foundation programme (including academic programmes) are eligible to extend their Tier 4 visa to cover the duration of the training programme. Our qualified visa team will be on hand to provide you with advice and support should you wish to take this career path.

Taking Your Career Overseas

MBChB students can chose to continue their training overseas subject to meeting the necessary entry criteria of the host country. If you decide to continue your training outside of the UK, you will need to refer to that country’s government body guidelines for details on eligibility, application and processes. 

We regularly review our modules to ensure high-quality teaching, informed by academic developments and feedback from students and employers.

Modules may be updated for 2027 entry. Any changes will be communicated as early as possible via our course webpages.

We have 50 places for international students. 

Applicants must have:

At least six GCSEs (or equivalent) at grade 6/B or above, including English Language, Mathematics, Biology and Chemistry (or Double Science)

All applicants must meet Fitness to Practise requirements.

Applications are assessed holistically, considering qualifications, experience, references and motivation. Predicted A-level grades are not used; however, predicted degree classifications may be considered for applicants in the final year of undergraduate study.

Please note: Applications for students will open in October 2026 for 2027 entry.

Entry requirements by qualification

For further information, please contact: InternationalAdmissions@wlv.ac.uk