Undergraduate Medicine course
About the course
Course overview
UCAS code: A100
Entrance requirements: A*AA (excluding Critical Thinking and Thinking Skills)
Course duration: 3 years (BA); 6 years (BM BCh)
Subject requirements
Required subjects: Chemistry with either Maths, Further Maths, Biology or Physics.
Recommended subjects: Not applicable
Helpful subjects: Not applicable
Other course requirements
Admissions tests: UCAT
Written work: None
Paediatrics speciality rotation training
The Department of Paediatrics delivers the speciality rotation training in Paediatrics for Year 5 students studying Medicine at Oxford.
Paediatrics focuses on the health and wellbeing of infants, children and adolescents – including their physical, mental and psychological growth and development. It is one of the most diverse medical specialities, caring for patients from extremely premature babies to young adults, and managing conditions ranging from brief illnesses to lifelong health needs.
Paediatrics allows doctors to practise as generalists while also offering many subspecialities including acute general paediatrics, community paediatrics and neonatology.
The aim of the undergraduate course is to equip students with the skills to take a history from parents and children, perform a competent clinical examination, recognise common and rarer childhood conditions, and understand growth and development and how illness affects these.
As well as having a good knowledge of health and disease, paediatricians must also consider the child within the context of their family and society, recognising the important influence of environmental and social factors on children’s health and well-being, and be advocates for the child irrespective of culture, religion, race, gender, ethnicity or social status.
The course lasts 7 weeks, comprising an initial 2-week block of lectures and taught modules in Oxford. This is followed by a 4-week block during which students have attachments at hospitals across the region to maximise their paediatric clinical experience. The course ends with a 1-week consolidation block in Oxford.
