The Exeter Medicine courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Exeter medicine course at a glance
Small-group learning from real clinical examples, with your first patient in the first term. Exeter teaches anatomy without dissection — imaging, plastinates, models and living anatomy — and every student spends at least a year based in Cornwall.
How Exeter teaches medicine
"Small group learning" using "real-life clinical examples", supplemented by lectures, in a "patient-centred", "intensively supported learning environment".
What that means day to day
When you first meet patients
"You will normally meet your first patient early in the first term of your first year."
Anatomy at Exeter
Imaging and models. Taught in the Life Sciences Resource Centre using "medical imaging, including x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound, coupled with the study of plastinates, models, living anatomy and virtual multimedia methods".
Year by year at Exeter
Where you will actually be at Exeter
Placement geography is the part of a medicine course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Exeter publishes.
Students must relocate to Cornwall for a minimum of one year, based at the Knowledge Spa facility.
- Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust (Truro)
Intercalation at Exeter
Between years 3 and 4 — ten bachelor's options and more than ten master's options.
Worth knowing about Exeter
- Every student spends at least one year based in Cornwall, at the Knowledge Spa in Truro.
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How to get into Exeter
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
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Read the guide →Where this Exeter course profile came from
Every course detail on this page was taken from University of Exeter Medical School's own course page, read on 2026-09-11.
Primary source: University of Exeter Medical School — 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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