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Early patient contact gives Medicine course a unique perspective

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Working with patients early, combined with student community opportunities helped build Laureen's confidence as as a Medicine student. Here, she shares her experiences.

Patient contact and small group work

I like the layout of the BM4 curriculum and how it integrates clinical and small group work into our learning early on. 

You are thrown straight into seeing patients, which can seem daunting at first, but allows you to feel comfortable in clinical settings from the start. Working with patients early on helps you consolidate your learning from lectures and keeps your studies exciting and engaging.

Student community and societies

There’s a strong sense of community between medical students here, and so many different societies to join under MedSoc, which make you feel really welcome and comfortable.

Helping aspiring medics 

I’ve been involved with the Widening Access to Medicine Society as the Education Lead, which has been very fulfilling, allowing me to help aspiring medics who come from similar disadvantaged backgrounds as I do, to strengthen their applications to study Medicine.

Building confidence

I’ve become confident in so many skills I never thought I would be capable of, and overall grown so much as a person in just 3 years of studying Medicine.

Medicine students consult text books in the Health Services library
Laureen makes use of the dedicated medical and health sciences library.

Related facilities

Clinical skills suite

The clinical skills suite is where undergraduate medics practise some of the most common clinical procedures.

Centre for learning anatomical sciences

Learn more about the structure of the body in this dedicated facility, which includes a teaching lab and educational specimens.

Health services library

This is our dedicated medical and health sciences library, based at University Hospital Southampton. In partnership with the University Hospital Southampton trust and the NHS.