During your medical training with us you will be continually developing your skills as a professional – you will be working in teams, you will learn to support and lead one another, and you will learn about your own strengths and development needs.

If you’d like to start on this work in advance, why not try the strengths inventory.

Strengths inventory

This is an optional exercise to learn more about yourself and to use this information to think about how you can develop as you progress through the course. Download the Word document 'Strengths inventory' to get started.

The Warwick Doctor

Another thing that is worth knowing about before you come to train with us is the core values that we hold to be most important at our school: these are known as ‘The Warwick Doctor’ values and you can view them below. In your first and final years, student prizes will be awarded to those who best demonstrate these values.

At Warwick, we support our students to develop and nurture these skills and attributes:

1. A compassionate, kind and caring attitude toward patients, co-workers and self.
2. A sense of responsibility for ones' own knowledge, learning, development, and behaviour.
3. The ability to work collaboratively with others; listening, learning, reflecting, teaching, supporting, leading, and speaking up as needed.
4. The ability to balance best scientific evidence with the needs and values of individuals to deliver responsive, holistic care.
5. The ability to identify and manage the complexity of factors that may influence patient care, and to respond flexibly to a changing medical environment.
6. The ability to work creatively and enthusiastically, to innovate and to change things for the better.
7. The ability to be patient, to learn from mistakes, and to be humble yet resilient in the face of the uncertainties of medical work, seeking support where needed.

Achieving Good Medical Practice

Before you join us, do have a read of 'Achieving Good Medical Practice'; a General Medical Council guide to what standards of behaviour are expected of you as a medical student.