The MB/PhD Programme leads to the MB, BChir and PhD degrees and is designed for medical students who are interested in academic or research careers by enabling them to integrate a three-year period of research with their clinical education.
The clinical component of the curriculum is designed to equip students for a lifetime of medical practice in a changing world with an emphasis on the acquisition of clinical skills by direct patient contact. At the start of the programme, students follow the Standard Course Year 4 curriculum up to and including the Year 4 Student Selected Component (SSC). (More information on the new clinical teaching programme can be found on the Standard Course website.) In general this SSC will be conducted in the prospective PhD host laboratory. After Part 1 of the Final MB examinations, and subject to satisfactory progress, a three-year period of full-time research follows, combined with regular clinical education, including weekly clinical supervisions and monthly clinical seminars. It concludes with students re-joining the clinical course to complete their studies.
During the research component, students are based mainly in the laboratory or department of their choice at the Addenbrooke’s complex or at one of the University sites in central Cambridge, or at a University-affiliated research institute.
Detailed Educational Aims are also outlined on the Course website
**Please note that this process is only for students who have already applied and been accepted on to the MB/PhD Programme and are in year 4 of the Clinical Course. If you have not already been recommended for the MB/PhD programme, please go to https://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/clinical-school-mbphd-course-information for more information on the application process**
Continuing
You must have already been interviewed and accepted on to the MB/PhD programme and completed the first year of the Clinical course before submitting an application through the Applicant Portal.
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Departments
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