The Swansea (GEM) Medicine courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Swansea (GEM) medicine course at a glance
A four-year graduate-entry course open to graduates of any discipline — unique in Wales — with clinical placement experience from the very first term.
How Swansea (GEM) teaches medicine
A "student-centred, inclusive and experiential approach" combining lectures and tutorials, case-based learning, Integrated Clinical Methods, and anatomy and clinical skills.
What that means day to day
When you first meet patients
"From the first term you will gain clinical experience on placement."
Year by year at Swansea (GEM)
Where you will actually be at Swansea (GEM)
Placement geography is the part of a medicine course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Swansea (GEM) publishes.
NHS sites including hospitals, GP surgeries and community health facilities.
Worth knowing about Swansea (GEM)
- Unique in Wales, and one of just a handful of similar programmes open to graduates of any discipline.
Applying to Swansea (GEM)?
How to get into Swansea (GEM)
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
Open the guide →Swansea (GEM) UCAT cut-offs and offers
UCAT cut-offs, A-level offers, interview format and decision dates.
See the requirements →Compare Swansea (GEM) with other schools
Put the teaching style, anatomy teaching and placements next to another school.
Open the comparison →Prepare for the Swansea (GEM) interview
Format breakdown, school-specific sample questions and prep tips from tutors who interviewed here.
Read the guide →Where this Swansea (GEM) course profile came from
Every course detail on this page was taken from Swansea University's own course page, read on 2026-09-11.
Primary source: Swansea 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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