The Leicester Medicine courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Leicester medicine course at a glance
One of the few UK courses that still teaches anatomy by full-body dissection. Clinical placements are long — 11- and 12-week blocks in year 3 — and stretch across the Midlands, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire.
How Leicester teaches medicine
Phase 1 (years 1–2) is primarily medical-school based, delivering the "Doctor as Scholar and Scientist" outcomes plus early clinical teaching and early patient contact.
What that means day to day
Anatomy at Leicester
Full-body dissection. Leicester is one of the few courses still teaching through full-body human dissection; the dissecting room carries video recording facilities and Apple TVs.
Year by year at Leicester
Where you will actually be at Leicester
Placement geography is the part of a medicine course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Leicester publishes.
Leicester's city hospitals plus district centres across the Midlands, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire.
- Glenfield Hospital
Worth knowing about Leicester
- One of the few UK medical schools still teaching anatomy through full-body cadaveric dissection.
Applying to Leicester?
How to get into Leicester
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
Open the guide →Leicester UCAT cut-offs and offers
UCAT cut-offs, A-level offers, interview format and decision dates.
See the requirements →Compare Leicester with other schools
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Open the comparison →Prepare for the Leicester interview
Format breakdown, school-specific sample questions and prep tips from tutors who interviewed here.
Read the guide →Where this Leicester course profile came from
University of Leicester's course page could not be read directly by our tooling — it either sits behind a bot wall or renders in the browser — so this page was built from the university's own published course and school pages, checked on 2026-09-11. Confirm the detail against the official page before you rely on it.
Primary source: University of Leicester — 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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