Medicine and Surgery at Lancaster University

Our commitment to student-focused, patient-centred teaching, academic excellence, and a close-knit learning environment equips you with the skills, compassion, and confidence required for modern medical practice and your future clinical career.

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MBChB Medicine and Surgery

Our MBChB degree offers practical anatomy, clinical, and communication skills development, hands-on experience through hospital and community placements and cutting-edge simulation facilities, and the opportunity to further develop the skills to pursue your specialisms through your assignments and selectives.

Our Medicine and Surgery degree options

Lancaster Medical School offers two options for Medicine and Surgery degree programmes. You can apply for our standard five-year MBChB degree, or choose the six-year MBChB with a Gateway Year designed to support talented students who need extra preparation before progressing to Year 1.

We have 130 UK and 4 Overseas places available for Medicine and Surgery for 2026 entry. There are 15 places available for our Medicine & Surgery with a Gateway Year programme.

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Medicine and Surgery with a Gateway Year

How to apply

Being a successful medical student and future doctor takes so much more than meeting entry requirements. You’ll be assessed through a four-stage process that includes academic performance, University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT), interview, and a fitness to practise assessment.

How to apply
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About your course

Our curriculum is built around key themes including medical sciences, health, culture, and society, population health, and professional practice, ethics, and law. During your five or six years of study, you'll encounter different teaching and learning techniques and a variety of assessment methods.  

About your course
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Admissions data

To help you understand the competition for places at Lancaster Medical School we publish our admissions data on applications, including UCAT scores, interview places, and offers made.

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Your future

Whether your goal is to become a hospital doctor, GP, academic, or specialise in a particular field, you'll graduate with the skills, experience and confidence to succeed in the next stage of your training and career. 

Your future
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