Medicine (DN400/MDS2)

Undergraduate (Level 8 NFQ, Credits 360)
Academic Year 2024/2025

Study Abroad

Duration:

6 Year(s)

Next Intake:

2024/2025 September

General Entry Requirements (A-Level)

A*A*A/ A*AAC/ A*AA + B AS Level + Interview

Subject Requirements (Laboratory Science)

GCSE C / AS Level D

IB SL 4 / HL 3

Subject Requirements (Mathematics)

GCSE C / AS Level D

IB SL 4 / HL 3

General Entry Requirements (IB)

38 + Interview

Country Specific Entry Requirements:

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From your first day in the dissection lab to the start of your clinical training, student life at UCD Medicine is a stimulating, diverse and vibrant experience. When you choose Medicine at UCD, you choose early patient contact, a world-class curriculum and an unrivalled calendar of social and extra-curricular activities.

We believe passionately in training doctors who see the world through the eyes of the patient, and you will interact with and learn from patients throughout your time at UCD. You’ll shadow GPs, learn from patient educators and train at Ireland’s most extensive network of teaching hospitals.

The main hospitals associated with our programme are St Vincent’s University Hospital and the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. In addition there are more than 20 other training hospitals and more than 100 primary care practices that facilitate your learning.You will also benefit from a diverse range of exciting international placement opportunities.

About this Course

First Year
Focuses on core sciences and their application to Medicine. Highlights include:

Chemistry
Biology
Physics
Genetics
Human Ethics
Healthcare Imaging
Science Medicine & Society

Second Year
Focuses on the structure and function of healthy organ systems. Highlights include:

Anatomy Dissection
Interviewing patients in the community

Third & Fourth Year
Complete the study of organ systems in health and disease and begin clinical attachments. Highlights include:

Pathology
Microbiology
Pharmacology
Neurosciences
Clinical attachments in hospitals
Clinical Diagnosis & Therapeutics
Respiratory Diseases

Fifth & Sixth Year
Immersive clinical attachments, instruction in the various medical specialties, clinical elective and professional completion.
Highlights include:

Medicine
Surgery
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Paediatrics
Psychiatry
General Practice & Community Medicine
Legal Medicine
Public Health Medicine
Professional Completion

The Medicine programme combines lectures, seminars, patient educator sessions, simulations, small group tutorials and clinical bedside learning. Assessment methods include end-of semester exams, practicals and continuous assessment.

Below is a list of all modules offered for this degree in the current academic year. Click on the module to discover what you will learn in the module, how you will learn and assessment feedback profile amongst other information.

Incoming Stage 1 undergraduates can usually select an Elective in the Spring Trimester. Most continuing undergraduate students can select up to two Elective modules (10 Credits) per stage. There is also the possibility to take up to 10 extra Elective credits.

Module ID	Module Title	Trimester	Credits
Stage 1 Core Modules
CHEM10130	Applied Intro. & Phys Chem	Autumn	5
MDCS10310	Patients, Doctors & Healthcare	Autumn	5
PATH10020	Basic Principles of Cell Biolo	Autumn	5
PHYC10120	Physics in Medicine	Autumn	5
RDGY10090	Healthcare Imaging and Information Systems	Autumn	5
ZOOL10010	Medical Zoology	Autumn	5
CHEM10080	Inorganic Chemistry	Spring	5
CHEM10090	Organic Chemistry	Spring	5
MDSA10210	Science Medicine and Society	Spring	5
PATH10200	Basic Principles of Genetics	Spring	5
PHYC10130	Physics II Medical Science	Spring	5
Stage 1 Core Modules
Stage 1 Options
MEIN10030	Multimedia Studies	Spring	5
Stage 1 Options
Stage 2 Core Modules
ANAT20030	Basic Tissues & Early Develop	Autumn	5
ANAT20080	Musculoskeletal Biology	Autumn	5
GPRS20010	Clinical Science and Healthcare Informatics 1	Autumn	5
MDSA20210	Molecules in Medicine 2	Autumn	5
PHYS20100	Cell-Cell Signalling	Autumn	5
MDSA20170	Vascular Biology	Spring	5
MDSA20180	Cardiac Biology	Spring	5
MDSA20190	Renal Biology	Spring	5
MDSA20200	Respiratory Biology	Spring	5
PHPS20010	Introduction to Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Public Health	Spring	5
Stage 2 Core Modules
Stage 2 Options
FDSC10010	Food Diet and Health	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
Stage 2 Options
Stage 3 Core Modules
ANAT20040	Neurosciences	Autumn	5
ANAT20060	Locomotor Biology	Autumn	5
MDSA20010	Gastrointestinal Tract and Liver Biology	Autumn	5
MDSA20030	Endocrine Biology	Autumn	5
PATH30080	Disease Mechanisms & Pharmacological Principles	Autumn	5
MDSA30090	Understanding Disability for Healthcare Students	Spring	5
MEMI30040	Principles of Infection and its Treatment	Spring	5
PATH30060	Genetics, Perinatal and Paediatric Diseases	Spring	5
PATH30190	Oncology & Immunopathology	Spring	5
PHAR30110	Cardiovascular and Renal Diseases	Spring	5
Stage 3 Core Modules
Stage 3 Options
ANAT20050	Basic Principles of Trauma	Autumn	5
ANAT30000	Sonographic anatomy	Autumn	5
PHYS30110	Adaptation to hypoxia: high altitude and lessons for disease	Autumn	5
PATH30220	Rare Genetic Disorders	Spring	5
Stage 3 Options
Stage 4 Core Modules
MDSA30050	Respiratory Disease	Autumn	5
PATH30030	Haematology/Immunosuppression	Autumn	5
PATH30040	GI/Hepatobiliary Diseases	Autumn	5
PHAR30060	Central Nervous Systems Diseases	Autumn	5
PHAR30070	Endocrine Diseases	Autumn	5
MDSA30300	Clinical Skills	Spring	10
MDSA30310	G.P. & Professionalism	Spring	5
MDSA40060	Otolaryngology/Ophthalmology	Spring	5
MEDN30000	Therapeutics	Spring	10
Stage 4 Core Modules
Stage 4 Options
CLIP30240	Stem Cells in Medicine	Autumn	5
PHYS30110	Adaptation to hypoxia: high altitude and lessons for disease	Autumn	5
RDGY30470	Radiology & Diagnostic Imaging	Autumn	5
Stage 4 Options
Stage 5 Options
SURG40080	Surgery	2 Trimester duration (Aut-Spr)	20
FLME40130	Forensic & Legal Medicine	Autumn	5
MEDN40090	Medicine I	Autumn	10
PHPS30020	Public Health Medicine, Epidemiology & International Health	Autumn	5
MDSA40140	Medicine in the Community	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
OBGY40110	Obstetrics & Gynaecology	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
PAED40120	Paediatrics	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
PSYC40150	Psychiatry	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
MDSA40160	Professional Completion	Spring	20
MDSA40240	Medicine Elective	Spring	10
MDSA40270	Clinical Elective A	Spring	5
MEDN40100	Medicine II	Spring	10

Extensive international links offer you a variety of opportunities to widen your experience. Scholarships awarded on the basis of an essay competition are available to support elective periods in centres of clinical and research excellence in the USA, Europe and Malaysia.

Graduates of the School have achieved worldwide recognition in clinical practice, research and healthcare leadership. Upon graduation, you must complete one year as an intern to gain full registration with the Irish Medical Council. You may then pursue training towards a career in a wide variety of specialties, in diverse settings, including hospitals and primary care facilities, or laboratory-based diagnosis and research.

Non-EU Undergraduate Fee information can be found here.

The following advice is for Non-EU applicants. For Irish/EU/UK students, please apply via MyUCD.

The following entry route(s) are available:

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