Medicine

About this course

Medicine is the discipline concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury, and with maintaining and restoring health. It is simultaneously a science and a practice, requiring command of a vast and rapidly evolving body of biomedical knowledge alongside the clinical skills, communication, and professional judgement that allow doctors to work effectively with patients. Studying medicine means developing expertise in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, pathology, and the major clinical specialties, as well as the ethical and social dimensions of health care, since medicine is practised in a context shaped by inequality, culture, values, and the organisation of health systems. Cardiff University's medical school has a long-standing reputation for producing excellent clinicians, and the five-year full-time MB BCh programme is grounded in a research

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