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The Warwick (GEM) Medicine courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be

Degree MB ChBLength 4 years (graduate entry)Teaching IntegratedUCAS code A101

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Overview

The Warwick (GEM) medicine course at a glance

The UK's largest graduate-entry medical programme, teaching in groups of 8 to 15 and using the country's most comprehensive collection of plastinated human specimens for anatomy.

Teaching

How Warwick (GEM) teaches medicine

"Hands-on learning: develop practical skills through simulation, anatomy teaching and clinical placements", with small-group work in groups of 8–15 students.

What that means day to day

Integrated
Basic science and clinical medicine are taught together from the start rather than as separate pre-clinical and clinical halves.
Anatomy

Anatomy at Warwick (GEM)

Plastinated specimens. "Unique anatomy resources: develop clinical anatomy skills with the UK’s most comprehensive collection of plastinated human specimens", in bespoke anatomy and clinical skills spaces.

Placements

Where you will actually be at Warwick (GEM)

Placement geography is the part of a medicine course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Warwick (GEM) publishes.

Coventry and Warwickshire
  • University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
  • Warwick Hospital
  • George Eliot Hospital
  • Alexandra Hospital
Worth knowing

Worth knowing about Warwick (GEM)

  • The UK’s largest graduate-entry medical programme, with around 203 graduates a year.
Next steps

Applying to Warwick (GEM)?

Sources

Where this Warwick (GEM) course profile came from

Every course detail on this page was taken from University of Warwick's own course page, read on 2026-09-11.

Primary source: University of Warwick — 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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