The Southampton Medicine courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Southampton medicine course at a glance
Clinical experience starts in the first few weeks. Southampton's placements cover the Wessex region — and unusually, that includes urgent care centres and ambulance services alongside hospitals and GP surgeries.
How Southampton teaches medicine
Lectures, classes and tutorials, coursework and independent learning, delivered across both campus and clinical settings.
What that means day to day
When you first meet patients
Students "start gaining clinical experience in the first few weeks of the course".
Year by year at Southampton
Where you will actually be at Southampton
Placement geography is the part of a medicine course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Southampton publishes.
Partner trusts including Portsmouth, Winchester and Southampton, plus GP surgeries, urgent care centres and ambulance services across Wessex.
- Southampton General Hospital
Intercalation at Southampton
Between year 3 and year 4 you can apply for a Master of Medical Science or MSc at Southampton, or an iBSc or MSc at another university.
Applying to Southampton?
How to get into Southampton
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
Open the guide →Southampton UCAT cut-offs and offers
UCAT cut-offs, A-level offers, interview format and decision dates.
See the requirements →Compare Southampton with other schools
Put the teaching style, anatomy teaching and placements next to another school.
Open the comparison →Prepare for the Southampton interview
Format breakdown, school-specific sample questions and prep tips from tutors who interviewed here.
Read the guide →Where this Southampton course profile came from
Every course detail on this page was taken from University of Southampton's own course page, read on 2026-09-11.
Primary source: University of Southampton — 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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