Aston Medical School
Aston Medical School is part of Aston University, located in the city centre of Birmingham, in the United Kingdom. It is the 34th medical school in the UK and 6th in the Midlands. It exists to train doctors and to promote medical research. Aston Medical School was conceived and led by the founder Professor Asif Ahmed, who was the inaugural Executive Dean and also served as the first Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Health. The current Dean of Aston Medical School is Professor Anthony Hilton.
Course
The Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB) degree is a 5-year course. Phase I consist of learning through a systems based approach the structure and function of the human body. Teaching is generally delivered via traditional lectures, small group learning, and exposure to anatomical models and cadaveric specimens. Early clinical training is integrated into this phase with extensive clinical correlations, clinical skills teaching and community based general practice experience. Phase II consists of predominantly hospital based training in the West Midlands region. Students will be offered the opportunity to undertake an integrated postgraduate certificate in Health Leadership as a student selected component of phase II.Aston Medical School will also offer various research options for postgraduate students.
Admissions
From September 2015 Aston Medical School took PhD students into Aston Medical Research Institute. In September 2016, Aston Medical School started a taught MSc course in Surgery for Specialist Registrars which coincided with Aston's 50th Anniversary. The first undergraduate MBChB students commenced studies in September 2018, following approval of its programme by the General Medical Council which regulates the medical profession in the United Kingdom.Aston Medical School has been fully accredited in 2023 after the first batch of medical students graduated.