The Liverpool Medicine courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Liverpool medicine course at a glance
A spiral, systems-based course where the science is always taught in a clinical frame, with "just-in-time" teaching feeding each placement block. Clinical placements start in year 2.
How Liverpool teaches medicine
A "spiral, systems-based curriculum, where medical sciences are taught in a clinical context" using "case-based learning, clinical experience and ‘just-in-time’ teaching", alongside lectures, practical classes, small-group teaching and simulation.
What that means day to day
When you first meet patients
Clinical placements begin in year 2.
Year by year at Liverpool
Where you will actually be at Liverpool
Placement geography is the part of a medicine course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Liverpool publishes.
NHS trusts, GP practices and hospices across the north west.
Intercalation at Liverpool
An additional undergraduate or master's degree by adding a year of intercalated study.
Applying to Liverpool?
How to get into Liverpool
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
Open the guide →Liverpool UCAT cut-offs and offers
UCAT cut-offs, A-level offers, interview format and decision dates.
See the requirements →Compare Liverpool with other schools
Put the teaching style, anatomy teaching and placements next to another school.
Open the comparison →Prepare for the Liverpool interview
Format breakdown, school-specific sample questions and prep tips from tutors who interviewed here.
Read the guide →Where this Liverpool course profile came from
Every course detail on this page was taken from University of Liverpool's own course page, read on 2026-09-11.
Primary source: University of Liverpool — 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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