It was very recently announced that the teaching of medicine to Swansea students will be performed entirely within the School of Medicine and the NHS Trust in Swansea. Currently students study for 2 years in Swansea and then another 2 years in clinical placements around Wales as part of the Cardiff University All-Wales Scheme.
The new course will begin in 2009, and from what I’ve seen will be a fairly radical integrative syllabus. All of the teaching will be moved around, avoiding separate “preclinical” and “clinical” halves to the course.
More work for us then! The Head of School did say that “This is a tribute to the outstanding clinical and medical science teaching we have delivered across School, and to all those clinical and non-clinical teaching, technical and administrative staff involved.” He’s right, this does make it feel like we’ve been doing a good job, and that we’ve been entrusted to do an even better job of training new doctors.
Wish us luck!
