Keele University (Foundation Year)
Overview
Keele University Medical School offers a modern, spiral-based, integrated medical curriculum, combining a range of learning strategies including problem-based-learning, lectures and seminars. There is early clinical exposure with students being able to meet their very first patients from the initial stages of the course.
The Health Foundation Year is aimed at students whose educational and social experiences have prevented them from achieving the GCSE requirements for the standard medicine course and provides additional teaching in the first year to enable them to catch up. Students entering the Health Foundation Year will undertake a range of modules and at the end of the foundation year will need to achieve 70% or above in all these modules in order to progress to the five-year medicine programme.
Applicants who meet all of the eligibility criteria will normally be selected for interview.
Key Points
- Foundation Year Entry
- Entry to Y1 Medicine if score >70%
- UCAT
- Optional Intercalation
FAQs
Keele University Foundation Year is a one-year programme designed to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge to progress onto an undergraduate degree course.
Anyone who meets the entry requirements can apply for a Foundation Year at Keele University. The entry requirements vary depending on the course, but generally require a minimum of GCSEs or equivalent qualifications.
To apply for the Foundation Year programme at Keele University, students need to complete an online application form and provide relevant academic qualifications and personal statement.
The subjects available for the Foundation Year at Keele University include Business, Computing, Humanities, Law, and Sciences.
Students who successfully complete the Foundation Year programme at Keele University can progress onto a range of undergraduate degree courses, subject to meeting the entry requirements for the chosen course.
The benefits of doing a Foundation Year at Keele University include improving academic skills, gaining subject-specific knowledge, and developing personal and professional skills. The Foundation Year also allows students to explore different subjects before choosing a degree course.
About the university
| Key Information | |
| Website | Website |
| [email protected] | |
| Phone number | 01782 733632 |
| Course Information | |
| Teaching style | Integrated A modern, spiral, integrated medical curriculum combines early clinical experience, integrated communication and clinical skills teaching, practical sessions, including dissection, problem-based-learning, lectures and seminars. During the Health Foundation Year you will study foundations of biology, chemistry and numerical skills needed for a successful career in medicine. |
| Course length | 6 years |
| Courses offered | 2 courses offered: A100 Standard Entry - 5 years A104 Foundation Year Entry - 6 years |
| Graduate entry | No |
| Foundation or access | Yes |
| University Life | |
| Local area | Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Keele University is based in the small city of Stoke-on-Trent within the North Midlands.The campus itself is located on the outskirts of the city so can feel quite separate. The campus itself is very large (over 600 acres!) and has everything you need including food outlets, the students union bar, grocery store and even its own GP surgery! The advantage of this campus-based life is a strong sense of community within the university and the medical school. |
| Social life | The campus has a range of common rooms and bars open to all students regardless of if you live on campus or not. Keele also has a great reputation for sports, and has a huge array of sports societies for students to join. There is also a 'Talented Athlete Scheme' for students who play sport to high levels. |
| Interview | |
| Interview style | MMI There is also a separate pass/fail test assessing clinical calculations. Online multiple interview usually consisting of two interviews each made up of two or more tasks. |
| Interview dates | Jan-Feb |
| Admissions Tests | |
| UCAT | UCAT Required Applicants score lower than 2280 or SJT in band 4 are automatically rejected. |
| GAMSAT | N/A |
| Academic Requirements | |
| GCSE | GCSEs 5 GCSEs or National 5s at grade 6/B including combined science or biology + chemitsry + physics Maths and English language (including a pass in speaking and listening for GCSE) are required at grade 5/C. |
| A-level | BBC BBC from three A-Levels including biology or chemistry |
| Scottish Advanced/Highers | BBBBB Higher: minimum of BBBBB Applicants must offer 5 National 5s at grade B including sciences with a minimum of C in Maths and English Language |
| IB | Please contact admissions department |
| Bachelor's Degree (Gradutes Only) | N/A |
| Statistics | |
| Number of applicants per interview | Home: 4.5, International: N/A |
| Number of applicants per place | Home: 24, International: N/A |
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