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Foundation year
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A foundation year in medicine is an extra year at the start of a degree, usually for students from widening participation backgrounds.
Summary
- Leicester's MBChB Medicine with a Foundation Year is specifically a widening participation route, open only to UK students who meet its criteria, and it lasts six years in total.
- Universities name this extra year differently. The UCAS listing for the same Leicester course calls it Medicine with a Gateway Year, so a foundation year and a gateway year often mean the same thing. See the Gateway year page.
- Each university sets its own eligibility rules on its course page, and the Medical Schools Council lists these courses with their UCAS codes.
- This is different from the Foundation Programme, which is the two year, work based training programme doctors do after medical school, not part of the degree.
Sources
- Medical Schools Councilmedschools.ac.uk/…/mbchb-medicine-with-a-foundation-year-a199
- UK Foundation Programmefoundationprogramme.nhs.uk/…/introduction
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