Pre-Clinical Foundation Year: Practical Skills for Professionals 1

MED3003 - runs in Sem A and B, 2hrs a week

This module will provide students with an understanding of UK academic culture, and help them develop the linguistic, analytic and argumentative skills, in both written and spoken work, necessary to succeed on an undergraduate medical sciences degree programme. It will help them produce linguistically sophisticated work, including under exam conditions, which demonstrates a clear line of argumentation. The students will be exposed to different styles of planning, organising and writing essays (both shorter timed exam essays of 500-600 words and more extended essays of 2000 and 5000 words) within a standard medical sciences framework. The students will be encouraged to employ strategies to reflect on their writing styles. Regular formative feedback on writing produced on the module will be imperative in ensuring learning outcomes.

The module aims to introduce students to the English language requirements of undergraduate level study in medical sciences, and to provide practice in academic written and spoken discourse, in order for students to acquire the linguistic and analytical skills necessary to succeed on an undergraduate medical sciences programme.

The pass mark for this module  will be 60% or above to qualify for progression to MBBS Year 1 (equivalent to IELTS  7.0). The final piece of assessment is the extended essay on a project which must be passed in order to pass this module.