The Clinical Skills and Medical Research course is designed and delivered by real healthcare scientists to provide medical school applicants with the opportunity to gain hands on experience working in both a realistic clinical setting and using real laboratory equipment. The course supports medical school applications as well as Biomedical Science candidates as prior laboratory experience is now seen as a prerequisite by many universities.
Designed to give you hands-on experience in both a laboratory and clinical setting, you will gain practical skills and will be trained by real scientists and health professionals in a setting that will help prepare you for your future career. This course is perfect for students interested in healthcare subjects including: Medicine, Nursing and Biomedical Science.
The Clinical Skills and Medical Research course runs from 9:30am – 4pm for 5 consecutive days with a 1-hour break for lunch. We teach at a low student to tutor ratio (10:1) meaning that students are supervised and encouraged throughout their course.
Day 1 – Clinical Skills I:
Students will learn how to take a patient history and to carry out a head-to-toe patient assessment. Students will learn how to perform basic life support (CPR) on adults, children and infants, as well as how to interpret NEWS charts, take a blood pressure reading using a sphygmomanometer, and measure electrocardiogram (ECG) readings.
Day 2 – Clinical Skills II
Students will be taught about lung anatomy, physiology and pathology. Students will then learn how to carry out peak flow measurements & spirometry for the assessment of lung function and diagnosis of asthma & COPD. Students will learn how to interpret chest X-rays and use patient data to diagnose disease.
Day 3 – Medical Research I
Students are inducted into a research laboratory and are taught how to work safely, how to use a micropipette and to prepare & serially dilute stock solutions using molarity calculations and measuring mass on a balance. During the afternoon session, students learn how to carry out blood typing in the laboratory to match a donor and recipient in a medical emergency.
Day 4 – Medical Research II
Students will gain an in-depth understanding of immunology and will process a set of clinical samples using ELISA as a diagnostic assay to diagnose patients with an infectious disease. During the afternoon session, students will use all of their clinical & laboratory skills learned on the course to analyse a disease outbreak and will have the opportunity to learn Gram staining of bacteria.
Day 5 – Student Presentations, Career Development Workshop and Certifications:
Student Presentations
At the end of the course students will present one of their experiments to the rest of the group in a formal presentation session. The audience will be able to ask questions and provide an opportunity for students to showcase what they have learned during the course of the week.
Career Development Workshop
Students will attend a networking session with BioGrad scientists where they will have the chance to discuss the many career paths within science and how to gain research experience. This will allow students to build on the experience gained during this course and further their scientific and medical careers.
During this 5-day course, students will learn transferable skills suitable for future medical studies or laboratory work:
Time is given throughout the course for students to gain a proper understanding of the skills being taught with an opportunity to redo anything that has not been understood at any point.
BioGrad is an Approved Activity Provider for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. This course may be used as your Duke of Edinburgh Gold Residential Award, which can be signed off by the course leader on the final day.
Please provide your Duke of Edinburgh Award number on your registration form at the time of booking your course.
Students using this course for their GOLD residential must stay at Quest Aparthotel. Please note course fee does not include accommodation fee.
Accommodation MUST be paid at least 28 days in advance of course commencement.
Find out moreThe cost of this course is £999
You can reserve your place on this course with a deposit of just £249.75 if you are booking more than 28 days in advance. The remaining balance is due four weeks prior to the course start date
You can also choose to pay for this course in 6 instalments if you are booking more than 26 weeks in advance, or 12 instalments if you are booking more than 54 weeks in advance
Private accommodation is available at a special rate at 'Quest', our partnered accommodation provider.
Students attending courses for 16-19 year olds can select accommodation at the time of booking your course, the confirmation email sent after booking will contain a link for you to pay for your accommodation (at least 28 days prior to course commencement.)
Please note, accommodation is not included in the course fee. Private studio accommodation at Quest is available to BioGrad Education students at a special rate of £90/night.
See our accommodation page for more details
Science Park, Liverpool, L3 5TF
This course lasts for 5 days
9:30am - 4pm
Sorry, we don't have any of these courses planned at the moment in the next academic year.