May Virtual Information Evening
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A medical degree for healthcare professionals
Designed for healthcare professionals, vetetrinary surgeons and clinical scientists living and working in Scotland, the HCP-Med programme offers a flexible pathway to train as a doctor while building on your existing experience.
Programme highlights
- Build on your existing clinical experience rather than starting from scratch.
- Study part-time and mostly online in years 1-3 while continuing to work part-time - approximately 21 hours of study per week.
- Clinical placements from Year 1 in GP settings.
- Join the main MBChB programme full-time in Edinburgh in years 4 and 5 and rotate through multiple specialties in hospital settings.
- Learn in a supportive environment with colleagues from a range of healthcare settings.
- Graduate as a qualified doctor after 5 years.
- Tuition fees fully-funded for eligible candidates by the Scottish Funding Council.
- Programme accredited by the UK General Medical Council.
Not sure if you are ready?
Many of our students come to the programme driven by a long-held ambition to become a doctor, while others are seeking to expand their clinical role and take the next step in their careers.
We know that making this decision isn’t always easy. Questions around confidence, finances, and balancing study with existing commitments are all part of the journey—and you’re not alone in feeling them.
Why not explore some of our student stories to learn more about their backgrounds, what inspired them to take this step, and how they’re finding the experience so far?
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