Medicine

We're reviewing this course as part of our regular quality assurance process.
This may result in some changes to course content or delivery of the course in 2025. 
On entering Year 1 in 2025, BM5 students will study an improved and updated course, which provides the advantage of more clinical learning time and embedded research experience. The major change being made to enable this is the removal of the research project in Year 3 and the associated integrated BMedSc award.

On this Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BMBS) Medicine BM5 degree, you'll study medicine at one of the UK's leading teaching hospitals – University Hospital Southampton – and at our purpose-built Life Sciences facilities on campus. You'll get clinical experience from the first weeks of your course, meeting patients in hospital and primary care settings. You'll also benefit from teaching from our world-leading medical research groups, embedding research firmly in the curriculum.
As part of your degree you will:
• attend shifts as a healthcare support worker to experience multi-professional teamwork
• benefit from a research-embedded curriculum
• take a student assistantship module in year 5
You will meet patients in clinical settings and will learn from volunteer patients, simulated environments and prepared patient cases.
You can:
• take your year 5 elective anywhere in the UK, or abroad
• apply for a Masters of medical science (MmedSc) or a MSc at Southampton - or study for an iBSc or MSc at another university - between year 3 and year 4 (known as intercalation)
• explore topics that interest you through our student selected units
You can get involved in research and entrepreneurship. We work on life-changing treatments and therapies in partnership with industry and with experts in the physical sciences, computing, engineering and mathematics fields.

In year 3, students may be placed in partner trusts including Portsmouth and Winchester as well as Southampton. In the final 2 years of the programme, students are placed across the Wessex region.

This medicine course is open to both home and international students.