HYMS has an international reputation in medical education. Our innovative curriculum has been designed specifically to meet the fast-changing challenges of 21st-century healthcare, so it emphasises modern teaching methods, a solid grounding in the sciences, and regular clinical contact from the very start of your course.
Above all, everything you study at HYMS will remain focused on the central concern of medicine -- the patient.
- Contact with patients: Not only is clinical experience always a keystone in your weekly
programme, but half of your placements take place within primary
care settings. This is unique to HYMS, and allows you to develop
awareness throughout your course of how healthcare operates
where the greater part of it takes place -- in general practice and other
community contexts.
- Problem-based learning: In the first two years, you learn in the supportive, stimulating
environment of problem-based learning groups. There you learn
essential teamworking skills, with shared discussion that helps
pinpoint learning outcomes and how to pursue them. Extensive electronic resources support and enhance learning opportunities.
- Managing limited resources: Including resource management in the curriculum prepares
you to make informed, efficient use of the varied means
available for promoting health, diagnosing and treating disease and
helping people live with chronic illness.
- Making a difference: Underlying all HYMS training is our belief that the medical
school should bring positive change to meet the needs of our local
communities, especially in areas where there is social deprivation and
high levels of disease and death.