The Leeds Medicine courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Leeds medicine course at a glance
Clinical placements from year 1 and an "active learning" model built on authentic cases. Leeds also runs a Patient, Carer Community that puts students alongside patients outside the clinical encounter.
How Leeds teaches medicine
An "Active Learning approach" with "authentic case-based learning", combining lecture theatre, laboratory and healthcare-setting teaching with smaller group seminars.
What that means day to day
When you first meet patients
Clinical placements from year one.
Year by year at Leeds
Where you will actually be at Leeds
Placement geography is the part of a medicine course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Leeds publishes.
Four NHS hospital trusts, plus GP surgeries, hospices and other NHS organisations across the West Yorkshire region.
Intercalation at Leeds
Available after year 2, 3 or 4.
Worth knowing about Leeds
- The Patient, Carer Community (PCC) initiative provides learning alongside clinical placements.
Applying to Leeds?
How to get into Leeds
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
Open the guide →Leeds UCAT cut-offs and offers
UCAT cut-offs, A-level offers, interview format and decision dates.
See the requirements →Compare Leeds with other schools
Put the teaching style, anatomy teaching and placements next to another school.
Open the comparison →Prepare for the Leeds interview
Format breakdown, school-specific sample questions and prep tips from tutors who interviewed here.
Read the guide →Where this Leeds course profile came from
Every course detail on this page was taken from University of Leeds's own course page, read on 2026-09-11.
Primary source: University of Leeds — 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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