The Newcastle Medicine courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Newcastle medicine course at a glance
A case-led course built around 24 clinical cases in the first two years, then three clinical years spread across base units in the north east. Newcastle also runs a Malaysian campus, and year 2 students can spend time there.
How Newcastle teaches medicine
A "case-led teaching approach" in which clinical cases are "used to help you make the links between your new knowledge and clinical practice".
What that means day to day
When you first meet patients
Clinical placements begin in year 3, after campus-based years with hospital and practice visits.
Year by year at Newcastle
Where you will actually be at Newcastle
Placement geography is the part of a medicine course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Newcastle publishes.
Northern Region NHS partnerships, with clinical base units across the region.
Intercalation at Newcastle
A broad range of Biomedical Science BSc degrees and master's degrees.
Worth knowing about Newcastle
- Year 2 students can take a Malaysia exchange at the NUMed campus.
- Newcastle was the first UK university to develop an overseas campus offering full UK medical degrees in-country.
Applying to Newcastle?
How to get into Newcastle
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
Open the guide →Newcastle UCAT cut-offs and offers
UCAT cut-offs, A-level offers, interview format and decision dates.
See the requirements →Compare Newcastle with other schools
Put the teaching style, anatomy teaching and placements next to another school.
Open the comparison →Prepare for the Newcastle interview
Format breakdown, school-specific sample questions and prep tips from tutors who interviewed here.
Read the guide →Where this Newcastle course profile came from
Every course detail on this page was taken from Newcastle University's own course page, read on 2026-09-11.
Primary source: Newcastle 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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