Personal Tutors offer academic support during your studies and signpost to university support services and opportunities. Personal tutoring is a two-way conversation, between you and your Tutor, focused on your academic experience and development.

Personal Tutoring:

• provides access to an ongoing face-to-face academic relationship while you study;
• means you are known by name, and as an individual, by a member of academic staff in your home department who can advise you about your studies and support you to navigate department processes;
• enables you to draw on your tutor’s expertise about available development and support opportunities;
• creates the opportunity for you to become part of the learning community within your department and the wider University;
• supports the development of your skills.

For advice on how to make the most of your tutor/tutee relationship, read this blog by Medical School Student, Grace Fisher.

Every student has a member of staff assigned as their personal tutor. You will typically meet your personal tutor during “Welcome Week”. The usual expectation is that you meet (either virtually or in person) with your personal tutor 3 times each academic year, even if things are going well. You can find out details of all staff, contact numbers and location by using the University People Search facility.

At the start of Phase 2 of your course you will be allocated a Clinical Personal Tutor (CPT). CPTs are normally based in partnership NHS trusts. You will be provided with their contact details at the time they are allocated.

It is important that you get to know your PT/CPT and that they get to know you, as this will enable them to provide you with much more effective advice and feedback on your academic and personal development. When you apply for jobs, you will usually need at least one academic referee who has some general familiarity with your work and progress over a period of time. Your Personal Tutor or Clinical Personal Tutor is one person who will normally do this.

If you have trouble contacting your Personal Tutor or Clinical Personal Tutor please contact your Deputy Senior Tutor or the Student Support Officer who will be able to assist.

The MB ChB Senior Tutor ensures that the personal tutoring system runs smoothly and efficiently within the Department supported by a Deputy Senior Tutor (DST) for each year group and the student support officer. Together they support the community of personal tutors / CPTs. They are accessible to students to help with specific matters beyond the role of the Personal Tutor (for example, cases of personal issues with the student’s Personal Tutor, cases of temporary withdrawals, cases of concerns for lack of attendance, specific cases of mitigating circumstances, and so on).

You can reach the team at the Student Support Office (MTC 021) or email MBChBstudentsupport@warwick.ac.uk

The Dean of Students and Faculty Senior Tutors are experienced academics who work with students and staff to promote the academic and pastoral support of students as part of a strong and supportive learning community. Students can turn to them in confidence for support regarding difficulties with their studies, which they have been unable to resolve with departmental Personal and departmental Senior Tutors.

The University Dean of Students has overall responsibility for the development of personal tutoring. Issues typically dealt with by the Dean of Students Office include academic course issues unresolved at the departmental level; advice on temporary and permanent withdrawal; appeals against academic decisions such as exam board decisions; academic complaints; ongoing difficulties with a Personal Tutor, Course Tutors or Supervisors; and problems with continuity of registration proceedings.

To contact the Dean of Students Office please email the Dean of Students PA (DofSResourcePA@warwick.ac.uk) who will put you in touch with the appropriate colleague.

WMS is committed to providing a health and safe environment for its staff and students. The following section provides guidance on both healthcare and personal safety.

GP Registration

Please note the General Medical Council guidance for medical students which states “It is important that you have access to independent advice and you should register with a GP who is local to your medical school”.

Students living on campus or within the catchment should register with the University Health Centre. Students will have to be registered in order to use the Health Centre services, although the Health Centre may be able to assist non-­registered students in emergencies.

The Health Centre provides primary health care GP services to registered patients; two medical practices with both male and female doctors; nurse practitioners and Practice Nurses; sexual health clinics; travel clinics and immunisation facilities. Students should call the Health Centre if they require a consultation with a doctor or nurse.

Students living off-campus, who are not able to register with the health centre, can locate their nearest GP by visiting: www.nhs.uk.

The University Health Centre is located on Health Centre Road and can be contacted by telephone on 0247 526 3418.

For services when your GP Practice is closed, please see NHS out-of-hours services.

Occupational Health and Hepatitis B

It is a professional requirement that students disclose any medical conditions or disabilities that may impact upon their future professional practice.Our Occupational Health provider is based at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire Trust (UHCW).Medical Schools must provide their students with a mechanism by which they may satisfactorily complete a full course of immunisation against the Hepatitis B virus, or in the case of those who fail to respond to the vaccine that they are not infectious carriers of the virus. Immunising medical students against Hepatitis B and testing their response protects both them and their patients against the risk of contracting Hepatitis B in the health care setting.

Any discussions you have with the Occupational Health team are confidential, they can only tell us if you are permitted to perform Exposure Prone Procedures (EPPs).They do though have a duty of care to inform the Medical School if any health condition disclosed is a patient safety issue that requires investigation through the Fitness to Practise Committee.