Medicine MBChB
Applying to study Medicine at Lancaster University from 2012-13
Admission to the MBChB at Lancaster is managed jointly by the Universities of Liverpool and Lancaster. UCAS applications should be made through the University of Liverpool.
On your UCAS form you should specify the University of Liverpool institution code and code name (L41 LIV) and then use the course code A105 which is a unique code reserved for studying the Cumbria and Lancashire consortium medical degree at Lancaster University.
At present only home/EU students are eligible to apply for the medical degree programme at Lancaster. Applicants who are classified as overseas are not eligible. Applicants from the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, who are not classified as Home students, are also not eligible to apply to study medicine at Lancaster. Please see here for more details.
There is no four-year graduate entry version of the degree at Lancaster University.
For full details see The University of Liverpool's School of Medical Education Undergraduate Admissions Policy
Information about the course at Lancaster University
Students are admitted under the auspices of The University of Liverpool but receive the whole of their education, academic and clinical, in Cumbria and North Lancashire. The University of Liverpool acts in a 'grandparent' role having overall responsibility for the quality of the provision; students follow the internationally acclaimed Liverpool undergraduate medical curriculum and graduate with a University of Liverpool degree. Lancaster University leads the local delivery of the programme with students based for their academic work on the Lancaster campus, with contributions from the other academic partners in the Cumbria and Lancashire Medical and Dental consortium (The University of Cumbria and the University of Central Lancashire).
For full details of the MBChB degree, visit The University of Liverpool School of Medical Education web site.
Information about the student finance arrangements for the MBChB course at Lancaster, including details of the bursary scheme offered by the Cumbria and Lancashire Medical and Dental Consortium, can be found here.
Clinical placements in Cumbria and North Lancashire
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust takes responsibility throughout the five years of the degree for the provision of acute practice placements. As well as the time spent in the Morecambe Bay hospitals (The Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Furness General Hospital in Barrow-in-Furness, and the Westmorland General Hospital in Kendal), students spend around a third of their clinical contact time in the community. Primary care placements are based in general practices across the Cumbria and North Lancashire region, and North Lancashire Primary Care Trust and the Lancashire Care NHS Trust provide mental health placements.
The enthusiasm for teaching by clinicians in the area is reflected in the excellent results which have already been obtained by those University of Liverpool medical students who have been based in Morecambe Bay for the whole of Year 4 and parts of year 5. This arrangement began in 2003-04 through a direct partnership with UHMBT and Liverpool (see Medical and Dental Education in Morecambe Bay). Clinicians from Morecambe Bay also have experience of offering the four-week 'Special Study Modules' which feature throughout the course, as does Lancaster University.