The Keele Medicine courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Keele medicine course at a glance
A spiral, highly integrated curriculum with dissection in years 1 and 2 and a placement estate concentrated on Royal Stoke and the Shropshire and Staffordshire trusts.
How Keele teaches medicine
A "modern, spiral, highly integrated curriculum" combining "early clinical experience, integrated curriculum and clinical skills teaching, practical activities (including dissection), small-group self-directed learning, lectures and seminars".
What that means day to day
When you first meet patients
From year 1 students are encouraged to think about the community and social dimensions of illness and health.
Anatomy at Keele
Dissection. Students undertake regular learning sessions in the dissecting room and other parts of the anatomy suite in years 1 and 2.
Year by year at Keele
Where you will actually be at Keele
Placement geography is the part of a medicine course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Keele publishes.
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (Royal Stoke, County Hospital Stafford)
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (Bradwell, Haywood, St George’s Stafford, Redwoods Shrewsbury)
- North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (Harplands, Stoke)
- Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (Royal Shrewsbury, Princess Royal Telford)
Intercalation at Keele
Available after year 2 at bachelor's level or year 4 at master's level, at Keele or another university.
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How to get into Keele
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
Open the guide →Keele UCAT cut-offs and offers
UCAT cut-offs, A-level offers, interview format and decision dates.
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Format breakdown, school-specific sample questions and prep tips from tutors who interviewed here.
Read the guide →Where this Keele course profile came from
Every course detail on this page was taken from Keele University's own course page, read on 2026-09-11.
Primary source: Keele 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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