When you graduate you’ll be ready to apply for the two-year Foundation Training programme. This combines work experience with further training – essentially it’s your first paid job as a doctor.
Having studied with us you’ll be in a good position to apply to the Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire (EBH) Foundation School.
Once you complete foundation training, you can choose to work as a doctor or apply for further study in a particular medical specialism.
What are the different types of Medicine degree?
To become a doctor in the UK you need a General Medical Council-approved medical degree.
For historical reasons different institutions give their degrees different names: you might graduate as a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery with the letters MBBCh, MBChB, MBChirB, MBBS or a few other options after your name. It does not matter which you choose, they are equivalent and enable you to progress into the next stage of your training (a foundation programme then GP or specialty training). The GMC-approved degree from ARU is an MBChB.
A BA Medicine, BSc Medicine or similar-sounding degrees such as our BSc Medical Science is not a qualification to practice medicine.
What can you do with a Medicine degree?
With an ageing population and a shortage of GPs and healthcare professionals, career opportunities abound in Essex and beyond. As a qualified doctor, you will find that you have a genuine opportunity to change people’s lives.
Training as a doctor opens up a range of career paths, with opportunities to undertake further training and specialise in an area of medicine that’s of real interest to you.
There are around 60 specialisms you could follow, with options including GP training, surgery, paediatrics, emergency medicine and pathology.
As a medical student at ARU, you’ll be based in our School of Medicine in Chelmsford. It features state-of-the-art skills laboratories, GP simulation rooms, and a multi-functional Category 2 SuperLab.
You’ll also use our dedicated Anatomy Centre with its dissection room, embalming facilities, radiology software, innovative virtual dissector, and ultrasound machines.
As well as learning in university, you’ll get hands-on experience on placements in all five years of your course.
Experience our Medicine facilities with our virtual tour.
Training as a doctor opens up a range of career paths, with opportunities to undertake further training and specialise in an area of medicine that’s of real interest to you.
When you graduate with your MBChB degree you’ll be able to apply for the two-year Foundation Training programme. During this programme you combine work experience with further training – essentially it’s your first paid job as a doctor.
Having studied with us you’ll be in a good position to apply to the Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire (EBH) Foundation School.
Once you complete foundation training, you can choose to work as a doctor, or to apply for further study in a particular medical specialism. There are around 60 specialisms you could follow, with options including GP training, surgery, paediatrics, emergency medicine and pathology.
With an ageing population and a shortage of GPs and healthcare professionals, career opportunities abound in Essex. As a qualified doctor here, you will find that you have a genuine opportunity to change people’s lives.
