Step 3 – Meeting your Programme Director

You are required to attend a meeting with your Programme Director to choose your optional units for the final year of your degree. You will complete a course unit plan in consultation with your Programme Director at the meeting to record your choice of units – you must retain a copy for your records.

*It is important that you retain a copy of your Course Unit Plan as you will need to enrol on your optional units yourself over the summer period.*

Copies of the third year draft 2020-21 timetable will be made available at this meeting so you can choose clash free options, however please note that the timetable is still draft at the stage as we do not have final timetable allocations until the end of the summer. No compulsory units should clash. You must make sure that your timetable is clash free when you return in September when room booking information has been released.

There are two reasons for asking you to choose optional units at this time of year; i) to provide all students with a  personalised timetable at the beginning of the new academic year;  ii) to ensure that the lecture theatres booked for your lectures are of an appropriate capacity for the cohort. You will, of course, still be able to change optional course units up to the end of the second week of each ‘early’ semester one unit and after the end of the first week for ‘late’ semester units and ‘early’ semester two units..

The Programme Director Course Unit Selection Clinics will take place w/c 20th April 2020 and a detailed timetable can be found on the intranet.

Placement students

You may want to discuss your options with your Academic Tutor before making your choice of optional units. You can do this by contacting them via email (or if you have not filled in a second meeting form on the intranet yet, this would be a good time to do that, so you can update them on your progress as well as getting advice).

If your placement is in the Manchester area you may wish to attend the Programme Director meetings.

Once you have decided which optional units you would like to choose, please complete the relevant course unit plan and return it to studentsupportoffice.sbs@manchester.ac.uk.

*It is important that you retain a copy of your Course Unit Plan as you will need to enrol on your optional units yourself over the summer period.*

Intercalating Medical students
If you are an intercalating medical student you will meet with your Programme Director in September when you have an active SoBS record on the Student System.