The Anglia Ruskin (ARU) Medicine courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Anglia Ruskin (ARU) medicine course at a glance
Essex's first medical school, with clinical placement from the first term and a well-equipped Anatomy Centre that includes a dissection room and embalming facilities. Placements cover the major Essex hospitals.
How Anglia Ruskin (ARU) teaches medicine
"Learn in lectures, in our labs, and out on placements", integrating basic science and clinical medicine.
What that means day to day
When you first meet patients
"Go on clinical placement from your first term."
Anatomy at Anglia Ruskin (ARU)
Mixed. A "state-of-the-art Anatomy Centre with its dissection room, embalming facilities, radiology software, innovative virtual dissector, and ultrasound machines".
Year by year at Anglia Ruskin (ARU)
Where you will actually be at Anglia Ruskin (ARU)
Placement geography is the part of a medicine course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Anglia Ruskin (ARU) publishes.
Plus primary care and mental health placements.
- Colchester Hospital
- Basildon Hospital
- Harlow (Princess Alexandra) Hospital
- Southend Hospital
- Broomfield Hospital
- St Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns
- Essex Cardiothoracic Centre
Worth knowing about Anglia Ruskin (ARU)
- Essex's first medical school.
- A Widening Access to Medicine Scheme runs alongside a regional preference for East of England applicants, and free school meals recipients and care leavers are guaranteed an interview.
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How to get into Anglia Ruskin (ARU)
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
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Read the guide →Where this Anglia Ruskin (ARU) course profile came from
Every course detail on this page was taken from Anglia Ruskin University's own course page, read on 2026-09-11.
Primary source: Anglia Ruskin University — official course information.
Courses are restructured between cycles. Anything here that decides your application — an anatomy offer, a placement city, a compulsory intercalated year — should be confirmed against the official page for your entry year.
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