Anglia Ruskin University School of Medicine offers an integrated modern curriculum with early clinical contact in primary and secondary care. You’ll revisit aspects of your learning throughout the course (known as a spiral curriculum), to support you to form links between “scientific concepts, clinical practice and professionalism” and to deepen your understanding.
The curriculum outlines the following clinical experience:
Anglia Ruskin offers a “state-of-the-art anatomy laboratory” where you’ll use dissection of Thiel embalmed cadavers to “explore the structure and function of the human body”.
During your studies at Anglia Ruskin, you’ll undertake clinical placements in “Primary Care, Mental Health, 5 Acute Care providers and tertiary units in Essex”, these include:
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There’s an opportunity to choose from a variety of Student Selected Components (SSCs) during all five years of the course. This allows you to explore specific areas of interest throughout your degree.
Following completion of your third year, you'll also have the option to apply to intercalate to study another undergraduate or postgraduate degree related to medicine.
Anglia Ruskin University boasts “state-of-the-art skills facilities, GP simulation rooms, an anatomy suite and a Harvard style lecture theatre” in its £20 million School of Medicine, which opened in 2018.
Studying at Anglia Ruskin also offers diverse clinical experiences, with a mixture of urban and rural areas within the East of England.
Anglia Ruskin University School of Medicine uses the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) format for its interviews. It specifies that you will undertake six stations/mini interviews, each lasting six minutes.
The interviewers will be assessing your motivation to study medicine and your personal qualities and values that will make you a suitable candidate. Anglia Ruskin outline the following areas that will be tested during your MMI:
For each station, you’ll be scored on your communication and interpersonal skills, your initiative and problem solving, and your personal integrity and moral reasoning. More information about the MMI and how it is assessed can be found on Anglia Ruskin’s ‘Our Multiple Mini Interview process’ page.
For September 2024 entry, interviews took place on Chelmsford campus between 1 December 2023 and 12 January 2024.
Most medical schools require you to pass an admissions exam before you’ll be invited for interview.
Admissions exam for Anglia Ruskin: University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT)
The UCAT assesses your characteristics, attitudes and professional behaviours against those required for medical school. The exam is divided into 5 sections: Abstract Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning, Situational Judgement (SJT) and Verbal Reasoning.
Anglia Ruskin specifies that applicants will be ranked based on their UCAT score and only a certain number will be invited to interview. In addition to this, if you score Band 4 (lowest band) for SJT you will not be invited to interview.
To help you to successfully prepare for all sections, the free Medibuddy AI-powered question bank carefully selects questions based on your strengths and weaknesses within the syllabus, to ensure that you’re focusing on areas which will have the biggest impact on your UCAT score.
You can also clearly see in the question bank dashboard (below) the areas you have “mastered” and those which you need to focus more time on.
It’s crucial that you prepare well for all areas to ensure that you get the best UCAT score possible and secure your interview place!
For more information and guidance, see our complete guide to the UCAT and our UCAT preparation tips.
