The challenging curriculum combines thorough training in the medical sciences with a strong emphasis on communication and practical skills. You’ll continually build and reinforce core professional skills, throughout the programme. The first year introduces you to the core professional themes, which run throughout the course, and the biomedical scientific principles which underpin clinical practice. These form the foundation of your undergraduate teaching and later years continually build on these. In year 2, you’ll enhance your understanding of clinical conditions, whilst developing an insight into clinical laboratory science and the role of ethics and law in healthcare provision. In your third year, you’ll continue to develop and consolidate the programme’s core elements and to learn about evidence-based medicine. You’ll integrate your clinical skills and knowledge through five five-week clinical placements, which provide a thorough grounding in general medicine and exposure to a diverse range of conditions and patients. In year 4, you’ll develop greater understanding of the genetic, social and environmental factors that determine disease, appreciate the principles of treatment and response to treatment. In year 5, as a final year MBChB student, you’ll be expected to call on knowledge from previous years that are of relevance to practice as a F1 doctor. After year 5 you'll begin foundation training before becoming fully registered with the General Medical Council. Successful completion of the MBChB (and meeting Fitness to Practise criteria) allows you to register provisionally with the General Medical Council (GMC), the regulatory body for doctors in the UK. The Leeds MBChB enables our graduates to embark on a variety of careers, including hospital consultancy, General Practice (GP), medical and scientific research, leadership in the NHS and international health development.