Program Overview

Course overview

Please note that this programme is currently only available to University of Liverpool students. The ACE Medicine programme is aimed at intercalating medical students and will provide students with the opportunity to develop in depth applied knowledge, clinical practice, research skills and professional behaviours in the highly connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care.

Introduction

This course delivers a placement-based and clinical research learning experience that encapsulates the key areas of each speciality, whilst ensuring deep understanding of the inherent linked nature of the specialties with authentic assessment.

You will develop the qualities and transferable skills necessary to make decisions in complex and unpredictable contexts; and learn how to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions in support of patent-based medicine in the ACE environment.

In the core placement modules you will rotate through the specialist areas within one NHS Acute Trust working within clinical teams to apply knowledge, perform and develop clinical skills and learn (and demonstrate) professional behaviours, high intensity clinical practice situations.

This is an innovative programme in that it offers you the opportunity to experience all aspects of Emergency Care medicine and the opportunity to take your first steps into clinical research in these areas.

This is a hospital based experiential programme and the supervisors are NHS clinicians working in the Acute, Critical Care, Trauma and Emergency Medicine areas, in exceptional circumstances (e.g. global pandemics), a student who is offered a place on the Acute, Critical and Emergency Medicine (ACE) MSc will be offered a place on the MRes Clinical Sciences programme if we are not able to run ACE.

Who is this course for?

This course is for University of Liverpool intercalating medical students who wish to develop their knowledge and understanding of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care.

What you'll learn