This Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BMBS) Medicine BM5 degree offers you the chance to study medicine at Southampton General Hospital, a top UK teaching hospital. You'll also benefit from our purpose-built Life Sciences facilities on campus.

You'll start gaining clinical experience in the first few weeks of the course and apply your core learning in hospitals and primary care settings. You’ll become part of an integrated team of healthcare professionals who understand medicine in context – social, emotional, and physical.

Your year 3 placements will take place in partner trusts including Portsmouth, Winchester and Southampton. In the final 2 years of the course, your placement could be in a range of settings across the Wessex region. These include hospital trusts, GP surgeries, urgent care centres, the ambulance service and other third sector organisations in the community.

Research is embedded within our degrees. You'll learn from academics whose research has impacted patient care, from pandemic response to cancer therapies. You'll gain the essential research skills you'll need as a doctor. We also work with students as valued partners in the development of our courses.

As part of your medicine degree you'll:

• attend shifts as a healthcare support worker to experience multi-professional teamwork
• benefit from support from personal academic tutors, our faculty senior tutor team, peer support and mentoring
• explore topics that interest you in public, global and planetary health, as well as medical humanities
• take a student assistantship module in year 5 where you'll work as an apprentice FY1 doctor
• choose an elective, clinical placement, research or educational project in your final year

Between year 3 and year 4, you can apply to study for a Master of Medical Science or MSc at Southampton, or for an iBSc or MSc at another university (known as intercalation)