School of Medicine

Intercalated Degrees at the University of Leeds

Why intercalate? 

Our belief is that intercalated degrees can offer a significant opportunity for self development either for students seeking an academic career in medicine, seeking to explore new options and avenues, or seeking to consolidate knowledge and skills for their future careers.

Why intercalate at Leeds?

The School of Medicine in Leeds has a long tradition of supporting excellent programmes for intercalating students. From 2012 we propose to offer a range of new tailor made programmes, as detailed below. These programmes offer an excellent range of specially create degrees for medical students. They are all designed to give students a challenging, enjoyable and rewarding year which will and significantly to their skills, knowledge, and enhance their career opportunities on graduation. We are also proposing to offer options to intercalate at Masters level in certain selected programmes, and have a proposed new MRes programme and a variety of University science programmes, all detailed below.

We offer bursaries and other financial support to selected students

What options are available?

We encourage students to Intercalate after three years of study. This is essential for Master’s programmes, and often students will prefer to Intercalate after Year 4 at that level.

From 2012 we propose to offer enhanced choice of SoM intercalated programmes:

  • Intercalated suite of programmes in Clinical Sciences [iBSc] - Medical Imaging  & Molecular Medicine & proposed Cardiovascular option  
  • Intercalated suite of programmes in Applied Health [iBSc] - Primary Care & proposed Medical Education; Medical Humanities; Informatics; & Public Health options 
  • Intercalated suite of programmes in International Health [iBSc]  - International Health & proposed International Health [Languages] option 

In addition we will continue to offer the following intercalated BSc programmes from the wider university degree programme. All these been previous popular with medical students and allow full integration with existing science based BSc courses and the chance of a substantive research project.

 

We are exploring the option for medical students to intercalate at Master’s level on a number of our current programmes.  We will update the website as more information becomes available, but in the interim please contact Amanda Thompson for details

From 2012 we are also proposing to offer a specialist MRes in Medicine programme for selected applicants. This will offer a more challenging one year course, with a more significant research component. Further details can be found here.

Can I intercalate at Masters’ level?

It may appear tempting if you are taking a year off to Intercalate at Masters’ level, and we are proposing to offer that opportunity on selected programmes from 2012. Do consider this carefully though. Masters’ level programmes are by design more challenging and less well supported. You will have to pay funds up front, and can’t offset costs using the NHS bursary. They are not for everyone.

If you choose to intercalate onto a Masters’ programme at Leeds you can be reassured that we will ensure you are screened for suitability, and adequately supported if you enter the programme.

Do I need to provide a personal statement with my application?

The following courses require a 500 word personal statement regarding why you wish to study the subject:

No additional statement is required for other University of Leeds courses.

I am a medical student at another university:

Can I apply to an intercalated course at the University of Leeds?
Intercalated programmes at Leeds welcome applications from medical students studying at other UK medical schools.    As an external student you should apply directly to the course you are interested in by completing the Direct Entry Form which can be downloaded from the ‘Applications from students from other medical schools’ section on the ‘Applications’ page.    

As a first step please contact the programme manager or the admissions co-ordinator to enquire about any course specific requirements for external applications.  Contact details are included on each programme's entry on the ‘Contacts’ page of the website.

Do I need to include copies of two references with my application?
No. However, please list the contact details of two potential referees in section 14 of the Direct Entry Form.

I am a medical student at Leeds and am interested in intercalating at another university:

How do I find out what is on offer?
The website www.intercalate.co.uk has details of intercalated programmes offered at other medical schools in the UK.  There is no central admissions system, like UCAS, for intercalation.  You will need to find out about each university’s admission process.

Where do I find the documents I have been asked to supply?

Money, bursaries and other issues

UG Home/ EU tuition fees for 2011/12 are £3,375. These increase annually so please consider this if thinking of applying for 2012/13.

Overseas student fees are £15,600 for science based courses and £11,800 for Arts based courses.

We have a certain number of bursaries available, please click here for details. We are exploring the availability of more bursaries, and at targeting our allocation to widen access to our courses.

Where can I get more information?

Please contact the course administrators or email intercalate@leeds.ac.uk