Gateway to Medicine

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Gateway to Medicine
Widening access to the medical profession
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Gateway to Medicine
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• Steve Leech Foundation Centre Widening
  Participation Co-coordinator
• Susan Scrafton Gateway to Medicine Project
  Coordinator
• Jackie Spence Coordinator of Undergraduate
  Medicine Taught Postgraduate Programmes

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Gateway to Medicine
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• Steve Leech Foundation Centre Widening
  Participation Co-coordinator
• Susan Scrafton Gateway to Medicine Project
  Coordinator
• Jackie Spence Coordinator of Undergraduate
  Medicine Taught Postgraduate Programmes

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Gateway to Medicine
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• Steve Leech Foundation Centre Widening
  Participation Co-coordinator
• Susan Scrafton Gateway to Medicine Project
  Coordinator
• Jackie Spence Coordinator of Undergraduate
  Medicine Taught Postgraduate Programmes

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Foundation Centre
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Preparation for study in UK Higher Education
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Foundation Centre
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• This includes students who have been unable to
  attain their academic potential
• Cannot study to a suitable academic level in
  their own country,
• Do not have sufficient English language ability,
• Or those who wish to study a degree subject for
  which previous study has not prepared them.

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Foundation Centre
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• Study options
• Direct Progression Year 0 of a linked
  Undergraduate Degree Programme
• The International Foundation Year

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Content overview
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Course content Mathematics English Language (
extra for EFL Students) Study Skills a
combination of subjects specific to your chosen
degree subject
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Learning and Teaching
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• All Foundation Centre programmes offer
• Durham quality
• Full student status
• 18 hours contact time / week
• Dedicated teaching staff
• Flexibility
• Collegiate accommodation
• Classes run for 21 weeks per year plus the exam
  period

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Preparing you for your degree
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Skills Preparation for HE
Culture
Knowledge
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Students From All Over The UK
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• Edinburgh
• Northern Ireland
• Lancashire, Oldham, Sheffield
• Harrogate, York, Doncaster
• Chester
• Wolverhampton , Birmingham
• Lincolnshire
• Merthyr Tydfil
• Kent , Surrey,
• Hampshire
• London
• Bristol, Somerset, Cornwall

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Our students are mostly local

• Newcastle 3
• Sunderland 2
• Hartlepool 3
• Durham 8
• Crook Willington 5
• Darlington 2
• Redcar 2
• Stockton
• Middlesbrough

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Students From All Over The World

• China, Hong Kong, S.Korea, Singapore, Malaysia,
  UAE, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Russia,
  Georgia, Latvia, Ghana, Botswana, Cameroon, New
  Zealand, USA, Spain, Germany

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Direct Progression
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Science Subjects Applied Psychology Biological
Sciences Biomedical Sciences Computer Science
Engineering Geography Geology Medicine
Social Science Subjects Accounting and Finance
Archaeology Biological Anthropology Business Bus
iness Finance Criminology Economics Human
Sciences Law Medical Anthropology Philosophy
Politics Sociology Sport
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Gateway to Medicine
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• A route designed to widen access to the medical
  profession
• Intended for local north east students from
  diverse widening participation backgrounds whose
  predicted A level grades do not meet the standard
  entry requirement for direct entry to medicine
  courses

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Gateway to Medicine
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• The Gateway to Medicine widening access
  initiative is delivered in four phases

Pre- entry Phase Foundation Centre Phase Medicine
Phase I Medicine Phase II
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Gateway to Medicine
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• Eligibility
• WP criteria
• First generation applicant including those whose
  parent(s) are currently studying for their first
  degree, or have recently graduated from their
  first degree within the last 5 years
• be in receipt of Educational Maintenance
  Allowance
• be in receipt, or have parents in receipt, of a
  means tested benefit
• be resident in an area that falls within
  
  the lowest 40 of the
  
  Index of
  Multiple Deprivation
• be currently in/about to leave the care
  
  of the local authority /foster
  homes

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Gateway to Medicine
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• Eligibility
• Academic criteria
• Three GCE A levels with predicted grades in the
  range ABB BCC (not including Critical Thinking
  or General Studies)
• To include AS Biology and Chemistry and A2
  Biology or Chemistry at grade C or above.
• Students must have an obvious interest in
  medicine
  which is demonstrated in a personal
  statement
  of application and
  a testimonial from an
  
  academic member of staff

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Gateway to Medicine
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• Pre-entry Phase
• Activities
• Summer school
• Being a medical student for the day
• Website
• Ethics workshop
• Celebration evening

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Body painting
Blood pressure monitoring
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Gateway to Medicine
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• Foundation Centre Phase
• Full student status
• 18 hours contact time / week
• Collegiate system
• Biology chemistry statistics reflective
  skills anatomy, physiology and disease key
  skills physical sciences work experience

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Gateway to Medicine
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• Medicine Phase I
• Strands
• The Foundation Case
• Cardiovascular, Renal and Respiratory (CVRR)
• Nutrition, Metabolism and Endocrinology (NME)
• Thoughts, Senses and Movement (TSM)
• Clinical Sciences and Investigative Medicine
  (CSIM)
• Life Cycle
• Medicine in the Community/ Personal and
  
  Professional Development (MiC/PPD)
• Student-Selected Choice (SSC)

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• Medicine Phase II
• Clinical Base Units - initial introduction to
  clinical practice and a series of essential
  junior rotations, in a range of specialties
  including reproductive and child health, chronic
  illness, disability and rehabilitation, mental
  health, public health, and infectious diseases.
  Also half day each week in general practice.
• 12-week course in clinical sciences and
  investigative medicine, followed by a 30-week
  period of student-selected components and
  elective study.
• Base Unit, for the senior rotations in primary
  and
• community care, as well as womens and
• childrens care, mental health care, and
• preparation for practice and hospital-base
• practice. Following the final-year
• examination, students undertake a short
  preparatory
• shadowing course to ease transition from
  student to doctor.

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