UK delegation visits Wheeling Hospital in West Virginia to finalize unique medical degree
General Medical Council and University of Leicester delegates visit partner hospital near Pittsburgh to discuss new Medicine MBChB-USA degree for US students
A high-ranking delegation from the UK’s General Medial Council, and the University of Leicester, a top 35 global institution for Clinical Medicine in the Shanghai Ranking of World Universities, have visited Wheeling Hospital near Pittsburgh to finalize plans for a new, unique university degree for US medical students.
The new ‘Medicine MBChB-USA’ degree will provide US students with world-class study facilities at the University of Leicester in the UK and clinical training in West Virgina’s leading Wheeling Hospital. It will commence in September 2019 and is recruiting now.
The course has been created for US citizens and lawful permanent residents who, upon completion of the degree, will be eligible to apply for US Medical Residency Positions.
The course offers a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree, the UK professional qualification equivalent to an MD in the USA and is aligned with the US embedded medical curriculum (including specific USMLE modules), thus enabling graduates to practice medicine in the USA.
During the visit to Wheeling Hospital from April 2-3, 2019, the University of Leicester and Wheeling Hospital senior managements teams finalized the course and facilities available for students including the integration of Promoting Excellence, equivalency between the UK and US delivery of education, the USMLE, integration into the UK curriculum, medical education at Wheeling, capacity for student numbers, quality assurance of medical education in the USA, and student support.
The UK delegation also had a tour of the clinical facilities at Wheeling Hospital including all key medical and surgical facilities at the main site, the Continuous Care Centre that opened in July 2018, Harrison Community Hospital and Wellness Centre.
“As part of Wheeling Hospital’s long commitment to medical education, we are pleased to join the excellent network of teaching hospitals associated Leicester Medical School,” noted Dr. C. Clark Milton, Wheeling Hospital Director of Medical Education. “In addition to our outstanding faculty and staff, the students will have access to an abundance of excellent schools, comfortable neighborhoods, shopping destinations, parks, recreation, theater and music, and professional sports. We are sure the newest members to our community will feel welcome in Wheeling.”
“We are very excited to launch this innovative and truly collaborative new course to be able to contribute to the training of the future doctors of the USA. Our modern curriculum and 45 years of UK experience will be combined with clinical placements in the USA to create a unique program for the US medical system,” said Professor Philip Baker, Dean of Medicine, University of Leicester.
“This new program has been designed to meet the needs and challenges of modern healthcare in the USA. The course is a patient-focused international collaboration, such that students will have unrivalled opportunities to work with the kind of patients that they’ll be treating throughout their careers whilst comparing and contrasting two healthcare systems.
“We are an internationally-recognized, world-class medical research institution and offer outstanding facilities at our state-of-the-art George Davies Centre, access to scientists and clinicians at the cutting-edge of medical research, and clinical attachments from Year 1 and for each subsequent year firstly in the UK and then through our clinical partners in the USA,” added Dr John Dormer, Clinical Associate Professor in Medical Education & Honorary Consultant Histopathologist, University of Leicester.
The course information can be viewed at https://le.ac.uk/courses/medicine-mbchb-usa/
For further information on the Medicine MBChB-USA course, contact the University of Leicester’s Leicester Medical School on +44 (0)116 252 2969 or email medadmis@leicester.ac.uk
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Photo 1: l-r Dr. Dennis Niess - Wheeling Hospital Chief Medical Information Officer, Dr. John Dormer - Clinical Associate Professor in Medical Education Leicester, Dr. Clark Milton - Wheeling Hospital Director of Medical Education, Professor Richard Holland - Leicester Head of School, Dr. Angelo Georges - Wheeling Hospital Chief Medical Officer, Sherry Sarcopski, RN. BS - Wheeling Hospital Director of Operations for Residency, Fellowship and Medical Students.
Photo 2: Representatives viewing some of the simulation equipment used for training.
l-r Dr. Clark Milton - Wheeling Hospital Director of Medical Education, Dr. Neil Khurana, first year Family Medicine resident Wheeling Hospital, Dr. Michael Sutton, first year Family Medicine resident Wheeling Hospital, Dr. John Dormer - Clinical Associate Professor in Medical Education Leicester
Photo 3: Representatives viewing electronic record features
l-r: Professor Richard Holland - Leicester Head of School, Dr. Dennis Niess - Wheeling Hospital Chief Medical Information Officer, Dr. Clark Milton - Wheeling Hospital Director of Medical Education, Dr. Michael Sutton, first year Family Medicine resident Wheeling Hospital
Photo 4: Representatives watching teaching experience as resident performs exam
l-r: Dr. Neil Khurana, first year Family Medicine resident Wheeling Hospital, Dr. Dennis Niess - Wheeling Hospital Chief Medical Information Officer, Professor Richard Holland - Leicester Head of School, Dr. Michael Sutton, first year Family Medicine resident Wheeling Hospital, Dr. Clark Milton - Wheeling Hospital Director of Medical Education
Notes to Editors:
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Email: press@le.ac.uk
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The University of Leicester is led by discovery and innovation – an international center for excellence renowned for research, teaching and broadening access to higher education. It is among the top 25 universities in the Times Higher Education REF Research Power rankings with 75% of research adjudged to be internationally excellent with wide-ranging impacts on society, health, culture, and the environment. The University is home to just over 20,000 students and approximately 3,000 staff.
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