Course Summary: March 1, 2026
Medicine and Surgery MB BS
UCAS code: A100
Full time
5 years
This highly regarded medical programme will prepare you for a career as a
compassionate and skilled practitioner - able to provide safe, individualised care
based on a sound knowledge of health, disease and society.
You are currently viewing course information for entry year: 2026
Next start date:
September 2026
Tuition fees (Year 1)
Home: Not set
International: £47,000
Scholarships available
Entry requirements and offers
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A-Level: AAA
IB: 36 points
UCAS Institution name and code:
NEWC / N21
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Course overview
Our MB BS programme uses a modern and innovative integrated case-led
teaching approach, and you'll be taught in a vibrant learning environment.
This course will prepare you to work as a doctor anywhere in the world, in both
the clinical and academic arena.
Programme structure
Years 1 and 2
In Years 1 and 2 you'll study key subject areas including medical sciences, clinical
skills, ethics and professionalism. You'll be based primarily on campus in
Newcastle with frequent visits to hospitals and general practices around the
regional medical school. You'll cover a series of twenty-four clinical cases to put
your learning into context and provide you with the essentials of medical
practice.
Years 3 to 5
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In years 3 to 5 you'll gain clinical experience through placements in our clinical
base units across the region. You'll undergo a series of rotations, clerkships,
assistantships and placements that cover all relevant areas of medicine and
surgery. We'll place further emphasis on professional development, student
choice, and hospital- and community-based medicine. This develops your
specialist knowledge, skills and professional behaviour, preparing you for your
future career as a doctor.
Throughout the final three years of the programme, there will be opportunities
for student choice. This includes two four-week student selected components
and an eight-week elective.
Teaching methods
At Newcastle you'll receive case-led teaching, which means using clinical cases
to help you make the links between your new knowledge and clinical
practice. For example a case of stroke can be used to learn and teach the
nervous system, cardiovascular system, clinical skills, pharmacology, Public
Health and communication skills.
Elective placement
At the end of Year 4 you undertake an eight-week elective placement. This gives
you the opportunity to study medicine, either at home or abroad and gain hands-
on experience of a different healthcare system.
Skills and experience
Research skills
We’re a Centre of Excellence in translational (so-called ‘bench-to-bedside’)
research.
This means teaching on our programme is research led. Strong links with our
research teams mean there are many opportunities for students to spend time in
research labs and facilities as part of short projects or as part of intercalation onto
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a master's degree.
Professional skills
To prepare you for your future profession we'll help you develop the key skills of
communication, information handling, reasoning, judgement, reflective practice
and decision-making.
You will be prepared for ongoing professional development and, through this,
you will be able to adapt to future developments in medicine.
Clinical skills
With our integrated case led teaching approach you will meet patients and learn
the relevant clinical skills from the very beginning of our programme. Our
regional medical school provides cutting-edge teaching facilities combined with
a diverse population and environment for you to develop into a doctor of the
future.
Your course and study experience - disclaimers and terms and conditions
Please rest assured we make all reasonable efforts to provide you with the
programmes, services and facilities described. However, it may be necessary to
make changes due to significant disruption, for example in response to Covid-19.
View our Academic experience page, which gives information about your
Newcastle University study experience for the academic year 2025-26.
See our terms and conditions and student complaints information, which gives
details of circumstances that may lead to changes to programmes, modules or
University services.
Quality and ranking
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Professional accreditation and recognition
All professional accreditations are reviewed regularly by their professional body.
Opportunities
Malaysia exchange
During Year 2 there is an opportunity to spend a semester at our branch campus
in Malaysia.
Intercalated study
Our medical students have the opportunity to enrich their personal and
professional development further by taking time out of their medical studies to
pursue an intercalated degree.
Intercalation provides an opportunity to study a subject that interests and excites
you as well as develop new perspectives on healthcare delivery, research and
education.
We offer a broad range of Biomedical Science BSc degrees and Masters degrees
that cover all aspects of medical practice.
We encourage you to develop skills that will be useful throughout your future
career and offer options to undertake your own research project.
Newcastle is recognised as a leader in a number of areas of research including
ageing research and applied stem cell biology.
We also have state-of-the-art facilities for clinical research, developed in
partnership with NHS trusts.
Students who do not wish to take an additional year of study will still have
opportunities to benefit from our research expertise through Student-Selected
Components (SSCs) and the summer research scholarship scheme.
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Facilities and environment
Facilities
Our School is part of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, which is home to Dentistry,
Biomedical Sciences, Psychology and Pharmacy, encouraging inter-professional
collaboration.
Our Medical School is a Regional Medical School and has partnerships with the
Northern Region NHS. It gives you access to excellent clinical training
opportunities offered by the large patient population (3.5 million) and the region-
wide infrastructure of acute hospitals and general practices.
By training in one of the largest integrated teaching and hospital complexes in
the country you'll gain a true insight into your future profession.
You'll have access to:
an extensive specialist medical library
a Clinical Skills and Anatomy Laboratory
dedicated computer clusters with online study guides that include
interactive assessment tools
Anatomy and Clinical Skills Centres, in Newcastle and throughout the
region, which include patient simulators, dissecting rooms and clinical skills
laboratories
Support
To help support your transition to university life, we offer a peer-mentoring
scheme that partners all new students with a student from Year 2.
From the beginning of your first year you will be allocated an academic mentor
who will support you throughout the programme.
Your future
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After completing your University programme, you're currently eligible to apply
for provisional registration with the General Medical Council GMC with a licence
to practise, subject to demonstrating to the GMC that your fitness to practise is
not impaired. However, the GMC are currently reviewing legislation and you
should be aware this may be different in the future.
Currently, all UK medical graduates are required to complete a two-year
Foundation Programme of general clinical training.
The majority of our students decide to apply to Foundation posts within the
region. There are sufficient Foundation Programme places in the Northern Region
for the majority of medical graduates.
International students are currently permitted to undertake the full Foundation
Programme, ie the first two years following graduation, but you are normally
required to return to your home country to complete further speciality training.
Once you have successfully completed the first year of the two year National
Foundation Programme (FY1) and gained the certificate of experience you should
gain full registration with the GMC. See GMC registration and National
Examinations for further details. This is followed by a further year of generic
training (F2). On successful completion of your second year, all doctors will have
achieved the same basic competencies before going on to select their specialty
of choice, either as a doctor in a hospital or as a GP.
All doctors, regardless of their speciality, must continue learning throughout their
career, and our programme has been designed with this long-term aim in mind.
Find out more about the career options for Medicine and Surgery from Prospects:
The UK's Official Career Website. There is also helpful information available
regarding careers in medicine and surgery within the North East.
Make a difference
Careers support
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We provide specialist careers advice from undergraduate level through to
foundation training, to help you move confidently from student to doctor.
Our Careers Service is one of the largest and best in the country, and we have
strong links with employers. We provide an extensive range of opportunities to
all students through our ncl+ initiative.
Visit our Careers Service website
Recognition of professional qualifications outside of the UK
If you’re studying an accredited degree and thinking about working in Europe
after you graduate, the best place to find current information is the UK
Government’s guidance on recognition of UK professional qualifications in EU
member states. This official resource explains whether your profession is
regulated in another country, what steps you need to take, and which
organisation you should contact.
Additional information
Medical Licensing Agreement
The General Medical Council (GMC) has introduced a Medical Licensing
Assessment (MLA) which will set a common threshold for safe practice. Doctors
who wish to work in the UK will need to show that they meet that threshold
before the GMC grants a licence to practise.
To register with a licence to practise, all students graduating from the academic
year 2024-25 onwards from UK medical schools will need to have passed a
medical degree programme that includes the MLA.
The Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA) will be a two-part assessment in the
form of:
• an Applied Knowledge Test (AKT). This test will be the same for all UK students
and international medical graduates. A GMC-appointed exam board will set each
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paper and the pass standard. For UK medical students, schools will set test dates.
We will provide the test paper, to be delivered at the school. We will also deliver
the test for international medical graduates. We'll do this at a number of locations
worldwide, possibly using delivery partners. The intention is that this will be a
computer-based test
• a Clinical and Professional Skills Assessment (CPSA). For UK medical students,
universities already run assessments of clinical and professional skills. We will set
requirements that these assessments need to meet. If the medical school's
clinical assessment meets those requirements, students who pass it will have
passed the CPSA element of the MLA.
NUMed Malaysia
Newcastle University has an overseas campus in Malaysia.
International students who are interested in studying at NUMed can visit NUMed
Malaysia's website for more information.
The NUMed Malaysia MB BS undergraduate programme is equivalent to that
delivered in the UK. It leads to the award of a Newcastle University MB BS
(Bachelor of Medical Sciences) degree. The programme comes under the UK's
General Medical Council's (GMC) robust approval and quality assurance
framework.
Newcastle is the first UK university to develop an overseas campus offering full
UK medical degrees in-country.
Find out more about NUMed Malaysia
Applying to Medicine at Newcastle University
Find out how to apply as a home applicant.
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Find out how to apply as an international applicant.
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