Support And Guidance

Supporting Students

Support and guidance

Throughout your studies at WMS you will have access to a great deal of support and guidance. Familiarity with the learning environment and assessment methods allows personal tutors and clinical personal tutors to provide guidance and support to help prepare for the challenges of life as a junior doctor and into speciality training.

From the beginning of the course, you will have access to a wide range of support, including a personal tutor who can provide academic and pastoral guidance, WMS staff (some of whom you may have already met during the Open Day and admissions process), our dedicated student support team, your small learning group, and peer support from students in later years.

As you move into the clinical-based years you will meet regularly with your clinical personal tutor with whom you will review your progress and who will help you set your learning targets.

While out in the Trusts, you will be additionally supported by the Undergraduate and Speciality Co-ordinators, the consultants you are attached to, the Clinical Teaching Fellows, Specialty leads and Trust Education leads.

Digital support

Moodle is Warwick’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) a web-based platform designed to support teaching, learning, and assessment. It provides a central space where staff and students can share resources, including lecture recordings, quizzes, case-based resources, and check-lists to keep your learning on track.

Each student will receive an IPad mini and Apple pencil which you will have on loan for the four years of your studies (returnable at the end of the course).

Here are just a few examples of the digital resources available to medical students:

Sofia is our curriculum mapping software that allows students to revise and track learning outcomes, add notes and attachments and filter content, aligned to Outcomes for Graduates and the MLA.

Clinical Key provides electronic access to all the textbooks you need, plus thousands of questions to make your own question bank.

NHS e-Portfolio is your own personal development record where you will log your experiences and competences, track your progress and reflect on your own learning experiences.

Peer Support

Our students are amazing at helping each other; whether it's older years arranging weekly peer support sessions, society-run skills events, or non-scientist teaching where students help their peers from arts and social science degrees get their scientific knowledge up to scratch. When you arrive at Warwick you will meet your ‘medic parents’ a student network providing pastoral support, academic resources, and general advice on studying at Warwick. There is a Medic Family Social in welcome week where you will meet your new medic families.

Student Advice and Wellbeing Services

In addition you are able to access all the student support systems in place for a student at the University of Warwick which include:

A careers consultant dedicated to supporting our medical students
Disability services
University Counselling Service
Students' Union Advice Centre
University Mental Health and Wellbeing service