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Special Study Units (SSU): BM,BS
Benefits
- You get to choose your subject areas
- You use self-directed learning (SDL), critical thinking, scientific and analytical skills
- You practise research skills
- You develop the confidence to present results verbally, visually or in written format
- You experience different clinical environments
- You're taught by external experts
Features
Years 1 & 2
- Period: 2-3 weeks
- Themes: Biomedical science, health care environments, medical humanities
Years 3 & 4
- Period: 2-3 weeks
- Themes: Clinical environments and management (Yr 3), Research process and teaching and learning skills (Yr 4)
Year 5
- Period: 9 weeks
- Theme: Elective opportunities
SSUs give you the chance to choose certain subjects to study in depth and build up into your own unique and varied range of interests. There are literally hundreds of SSU options to choose from covering a wide variety of modern health care disciplines, including:
- Diabetes: Management Strategies and their Effectiveness
- Psychotherapy Skills
- Anatomy at Autopsy
- Poetry and Health
- Lung Cancer/Breast Cancer Mortality Statistics
- The Therapeutic Relationship
- Are You What You Eat?
- Plastic Surgery - Wound Healing
- The Cytoskeleton with Examples of its Pathology
- Stroke Rehabilitation
- Medical History
- Protein Structure and Molecular Modelling
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Plants and Medicine
- Virtual Reality in Medicine
- Scanning Electronmicroscopy in Medicine
- Maxillofacial Surgery
SSUs cover the whole 5-year BM,BS degree and give you the chance to work with the NHS, university staff and the community. Over time they help equip you with the professional attitudes, knowledge and skills you need for a truly successful transition from medical student to doctor, teacher and lifelong learner.