The School committed to a comprehensive change initiative in 2023/2024, the outcome of which will be the development of a new curriculum (Medicine 2030) for our undergraduate entry and graduate entry Medicine programmes. The new Medicine 2030 curriculum will launch in 2026/2027 academic session.
Our new curriculum will retain existing curriculum strengths, introduce further educational innovation, and will ensure that our graduates continue to be well prepared for clinical practice in 2030 and beyond. Our programme will be benchmarked against international best practice, and we will formalise the collection of performance data to inform future curricular developments.
The change programme will span three academic years such that a new medicine curriculum will be designed, developed, and approved in Academic Years 2023/2024 and 2024/2025, introduced to current Stage 2 Medicine in September 2026, with the first cohort of students graduating in June 2030.
A separate programme of evaluation will commence with the roll-out of the new curriculum in 2026/2027 such that data on stage and programme performance, and attainment of graduate attributes, will be compared with data collected over the past five years.
Our partners in this change journey are our staff, students and alumni, our clinical colleagues in hospital and community medicine, patient advocates and other stakeholder groups. We are delighted to welcome your input, but you will appreciate given the size of this undertaking that we will be unable to meet individually and ask that you avail of the various consultation opportunities.