Your Medicine and Surgery offer

Congratulations on your offer to study at Medicine and Surgery.

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Offer Holder Events

Discover Lancaster University for yourself at one of our events exclusively for Medicine and Surgery offer holders and their guests.

  • Saturday 12th April 2025
  • Saturday 26th April 2025
  • Thursday 1st May 2025 (online)

These events are a chance to experience our friendly and inclusive teaching environment first-hand. You’ll get to know our Medical School team and current students through subject talks, taster sessions and informal chats over a complimentary lunch.

At your Offer Holder Event, you will:

  • Learn more about the structure of your degree and our approach to teaching and learning
  • Experience life as a medical student through anatomy, clinical skills and problem-based learning taster sessions
  • Have the opportunity to chat with staff and current students from Lancaster Medical School

Once you have received an offer to study Medicine and Surgery, you will be emailed a unique booking link to the email address used on your UCAS application. If you have any questions, or haven't received your personal booking link, please email us.

Why Lancaster?

Join an established and growing medical school in a high-ranking university and gain the skills, knowledge and support you need to excel, whatever your background.

A supportive and welcoming environment

We may have grown steadily since we began training medics in 2006, but our ethos as a highly-supportive, student-focussed learning environment remains. Our small group teaching means you’ll quickly feel at home and you’ll always have someone to turn to – be it a fellow student or your tutor – when you need a helping hand.

Small group teaching

We combine lectures and clinical anatomy with small-group learning, complemented by clinical training and hospital and community placements.

Unique location

Lancaster Medical School’s unique location is ideal for getting an insight into the practice of medicine across a hugely diverse population and geography. Your clinical and community placements will offer you a breadth of experience in locations ranging from small, rural GP practices to urban hospitals and deprived coastal communities, helping you to become a well-rounded, resilient, work-ready medical practitioner.

Early patient contact

Early clinical placements will allow you to apply your learning through contact with patients with complex needs. You will begin to hone your skills in history-taking, examinations and patient communication.

Equipped for achievement

A modern medical school, Lancaster utilises new technologies in its anatomy teaching, including Anatomage tables for virtual dissection. Anatomage allows you to learn anatomy in tandem with learning to interpret clinical images.

Connected curriculum

Our curriculum coversthe socio-economic, cultural and environmental factors that affect health and medicine, as well as population health and professional practice. Through it, you will build a diverse and flexible skillset and become adept at the joined-up thinking needed to excel in a rewarding career in medicine.

Keep exploring

Medicine student Unna sitting on a green sofa looking towards the camera

Meet Unna

Medicine now is really technological – I saw a Da Vinci machine in work experience – and when I looked at the course at Lancaster, I saw the technology that they used and I thought that studying here would be especially beneficial to my future career.

Then there is the campus! It’s got a really good community… Perhaps over the pandemic this was even more important because I still made lots of friends, while people I know at big city universities did struggle.

The way they teach using problem-based learning (PBL) is a big part of why I chose Lancaster. It’s really about teamwork and in a way, because of the small groups, it is a bit like school. It really is a big leap from school to university and so for me this made the transition easier. In PBL you kind of have a teacher, and you talk to your friends (because your PBL group only changes a couple of times a year, you become friends with them), and build a team. There’s so much team-working in Medicine that this was another big thing for me.

Unna, Medicine and Surgery student

Contextual offer scheme

We care deeply about recruiting medical students who reflect the diversity of our society, so we're pleased to make offers through our contextual offer scheme to eligible applicants. Information about the scheme and the information used to assess your eligibility can be found on the Lancaster Medical School webpages.

As part of our contextual offer scheme, you can benefit from:

  • Reduced entry grades - your exact offer conditions can be found in your UCAS account
  • Lancaster Opportunity Scholarship (£1000 per year of study) - see full details
  • Opportunity to join the Lancaster Success Programme - see further information

Important information about your offer

Students on our Medicine and Surgery programmes are required to sign a student agreement when commencing their studies. A copy of a previous year’s agreement, for your information only, can be found here: LMS Student agreement example. This agreement is subject to alteration. This year’s agreement will be made available online and you will be sent a link to complete this at registration.

Further important information was posted to offer holders. Please get in touch with us if you would like a copy of this.

If you would like more information, please feel free to contact the Medical School Admissions Office on ugamedicine@lancaster.ac.uk

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