subject benchmark statements for Medicine

Medicine Subject benchmark statements provide a means for the academic community to describe the nature and
characteristics of programmes in a specific subject. They also represent general expectations about the standards
for the award of qualifications at a given level and articulate the attributes and capabilities that those possessing
such qualifications should be able to demonstrate.
This Subject benchmark statement does not address explicitly the level at which the qualifications for medicine
might be placed within either The framework for higher education qualifications in England, Wales and Northern
Ireland or The framework for qualifications of higher education institutions in Scotland (the frameworks).
However, the statement includes expressions of the professional/employment related abilities that graduates
in medicine would be expected to have developed during their higher education and associated practice
based experiences. These align, albeit with an emphasis on 'professional ability', with the abilities expressed
1in the Masters degree descriptor included within the frameworks .
Subject benchmark statements are used for a variety of purposes. Primarily, they are an important external
source of reference for higher education institutions when new programmes are being designed and
developed in a subject area. They provide general guidance for articulating the learning outcomes associated
with the programme but are not a specification of a detailed ...