In your final year you do your senior student attachments in internal medicine and surgery as well as further attachments in obstetrics and gynaecology, psychiatry, paediatrics and general practice. Likewise with assessment we fit the method to the subject matter. As well as written examinations you have course work, projects, clinical examinations and oral assessments. Two months in the spring of the fourth year are allotted to whole-time supervised studies of the students' own choice. This period may be used in extending work already done in a department of the Medical School, or embarking on a fresh piece of research planned in advance, or in travelling to another centre either in Britain or abroad for clinical or special subjects or consolidating knowledge in one or other of the subjects already studied.
Study abroad can be expensive.
However, some competitive bursaries are available. Intercalated Programmes Medical students who have attained an adequate standard in the examinations may be admitted to a one-year programme leading to an Honours degree in Medical Sciences. They then return to complete the MBChB programme. There are many reasons for choosing to do medicine at Birmingham. One of the most important is that the West Midlands with 5.5 million people is the largest region in the country.