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Curriculum Review

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The curriculum review is the first major review since the formation of Imperial medical school 20 years ago. 


The vision is to ensure changes produce doctors capable of rising to the opportunities and challenges of 21C NHS Healthcare.  We need to respond to the ongoing drive to increasingly provide care in the community, and for doctors to have generalist skills both in the hospital and community setting in the way we train.  We also need to embrace a different pedagogy for our students to confidently succeed in the national licensing assessment (UKMLA) that will be introduced in the next five years.  Currently we are looking at various aspects of the course in thematic review groups covering different areas of the curriculum. It is early days but it is likely that students will have more clinical experience in the first two years of the course and also during their BSc science year 4. We would aim to increase their exposure to the undifferentiated patients giving them more time in primary care and other community settings such as the urgent care centre.


For further information please see the curriculum review website:

We are likely to disseminate future proposals for consultation and we encourage all our GP teachers to be involved.  Please send suggestions via email on how we shape the curriculum going forward: curriculumreview@imperial.ac.uk

I look forward to hearing from you.


Dr Jo Harris
Chair of Curriculum Review
Deputy Head of Undergraduate Medicine

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