ATAS
In addition, to applying for a visa, you may have to complete an ATAS application. The Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) was introduced on 1 November 2007. ATAS is designed to ensure that students do not pose a security threat whilst studying in the UK.
All programmes of study have a JACS code. For the Faculty of Medicine, you only need to apply for an ATAS certificate if you are a non EU national and the JACS code begins with one of the following:
* B1 – Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology
* B2 – Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacy
* B9 – Others in Subjects allied to Medicine
* C1 – Biology
* C2 – Botany
* C4 – Genetics
* C5 – Microbiology
* C7 – Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry
* C9 – Others in Biological Sciences
* F3 – Physics
The JACS code will be clearly listed on your letter of admission. Please click on the ATAS link to obtain an application form and further information. You can only apply for an ATAS certificate AFTER you have received either a conditional or unconditional offer from a UK University. If you apply without this your application will be rejected.
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Year 1
* Block 1 – Hierarchy of Systems, Core Values in Medicine
* Block 2 – Elementary Topography
* Block 3 – Risks and Responses
* Blocks 4 & 5 – Determinants of Health; Disease Patterns; Nutrition, Metabolism, Growth and Development
* Block 6 – Homeostasis
[edit] Year 2
* Block 7 – Conception, Growth and Development
* Block 8 – Musculoskeletal and Neurological Systems
* Block 9 – Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Renal Systems
* Block 10 – Digestion and Metabolism
* Block 11 – Regulation and Responses
[edit] Year 3
* Block 12 – Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems
* Block 13 – Haematology, Musculoskeletal Systems, Dermatology
* Block 14 – Neurology, Psychiatry
* Block 15 – Abdomen and Breasts
[edit] Years 4 & 5
Years 4 and 5 form the final part of the core and take the form of a series of clinical attachments through Medicine, Surgery, Psychological Medicine, Child Health, Obstetrics & Gynaecology and General Practice. A series of Academic Days during the clinical attachments continues the process of integrating the biological and clinical sciences. Continuing training is given in both communication skills and clinical skills. All students are required to undertake one week of shadowing a junior doctor after their final exams before they can graduate.[3]
[edit] Student Selected Modules
Student selected modules (SSM) constitute approximately 20% of the structured course time and are designed to allow the selection and in depth study of special interest subjects. A wide variety of topics for study are available. Increasingly, students are proposing their own SSMs and in addition there is the facility for an SSM to be linked to an elective, allowing for projects to be carried out overseas or a small research project to be completed.
[edit] Clinical Skills and Vocational Studies
Medical students have contact with patients from early on in the medical degree programme. Training in communication and clinical skills starts in Year 1, while Vocational Studies assists students in the acquisition of professional skills and attributes, standards and behaviour. The learning objectives are defined as follows:
* understanding people, patients and communities
* communication skills
* working with others
* clinical skills
* the clinical context, seeing encounters with patients as part of a larger clinical picture
* information skills
* evidence-based medicine
* finding out (research and experiment)
* the right thing to do (legal, moral, ethical)
* personal and professional development
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