Course summary

Foundation Year Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele. Please note, we do not currently offer this Foundation Year for international students. Medicine Medicine at Keele delivers an innovative curriculum underpinned by the three core themes identified by the General Medical Council: Professional Values and Behaviours, Professional Skills, and Professional Knowledge (GMC, 2018). Ranked 5th in England (Guardian University League Table, 2025). Studying Medicine MBChB at Keele you will develop the necessary knowledge and clinical skills to become a doctor who practises with competence and compassion.

• 5th in England for Medicine (Guardian University Guide, 2025)

• Over 100 weeks spent on clinical placement in primary care and hospital settings across Staffordshire, Shropshire and other adjoining counties

• 1st in UK for overall F1 preparedness (GMC National Training Surveys, 2023)

• Benefit from diverse teaching methods including problem-based learning (PBL), other small- and large-group learning activities, and dissection

• Strong student engagement opportunities through our Student Voice Committee

• Professional and ethical responsibilities

• Patient safety and quality improvement

• Diagnosis and medical management

• Prescribing medication safely

• The health service and healthcare systems

• Health promotion and illness prevention