This course aims to educate students to become compassionate, thoughtful, skilled members – and leaders – of the medical profession. Success in medicine requires application and hard work, both while studying and when in practice. However, it brings great rewards in terms of job satisfaction, involving, as it does, a combination of science with human interactions and numerous career opportunities. Our medicine courses are intellectually stimulating and professionally challenging. We provide rigorous training in the medical sciences, while equipping students with the communication, interpersonal, and clinical skills required by today’s doctors. There is a broad spectrum of hospital and community based careers across general practice, medicine, surgery, psychiatry and other specialities. Increasingly, doctors will be expected to deliver healthcare in a range of clinical settings. Most UK graduates go on to work in the NHS, and about 40 per cent become general practitioners. Assessment, both formative and summative, plays a significant role throughout. Your ongoing progress is reviewed weekly and termly by your College supervisors. Formal assessment, which determines your ability to proceed with the course, includes written and practical examinations, coursework submission and clinical assessments. Successful completion of the first three years leads to a BA degree and on successful completion of the clinical studies in Cambridge you are awarded two degrees, the Bachelor of Medicine and the Bachelor of Surgery (MB, BChir).