Intercalation
The School welcomes all intercalating medical, dental and vet students on to our courses in Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Physiological Sciences.
Specific information about intercalated degrees within this school is below. Find out more about intercalated degrees at Bristol and how to apply.
Entry requirements
There are no official entry requirements for intercalators. Applications are judged on academic performance in your medical course up to the time of the application.
We expect to only offer places to candidates whose average performance is over 60 per cent (or equivalent if based on other mark scales).
Entry to all courses requires an outline of the teaching that demonstrates an appropriate background to intercalation in Neuroscience, Pharmacology or Physiological Science.
Places are dependent on availability and the number of places varies each year.
Course structure
Please see the tables below for an outline of the intercalation course structure for each of our programmes.
Research Project*
There are several types of projects are available, including experimental, non-experimental (literature based), data analysis, and teaching. You will be able to express a preference for individual projects, but we cannot guarantee that you will be allocated to a particular project or project type.
Neuroscience
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Intercalation course structure for BSc Neuroscience |
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Units (totalling 120 credit points) |
Components |
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Concepts and skills (mandatory) Teaching Block 1 20 CP |
Experimental Design and Statistics (40%) Graphical Abstract (20%) Experimental Design conference abstract (20%) and presentation (20%) |
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Research project* (mandatory) Teaching Blocks 1 and 2 40 CP |
Dissertation (80%) Project Talk (10%) Supervisor's Assessment (10%) |
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Optional units** – in total you can choose 3 optional units – 1 from Teaching Block 1, 1 from Teaching Block 2 (A), and 1 from Teaching Block 2 (B). All optional units are worth 20 CP. TB1 optional units are assessed by a timed assessment essay (60%) and a data interpretation exam (40%). TB2 optional units are assessed by a timed assessment essay (50%) and a data interpretation / experimental design exam (50%) Units are in List A (preferred Neuroscience units) and List B (Physiology or Pharmacology units) You may only choose one unit from List B across all options, so you should either choose: • three List A units, or • two List A units and one List B unit |
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Teaching Block 1 |
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List A |
Synaptic Cell Biology |
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List A |
The Rhythms of Life |
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List B |
Molecular Pharmacology |
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List B |
The Heart in Health & Disease |
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Teaching Block 2 (A) |
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List A |
Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders |
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List A |
Synaptic Plasticity |
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List B |
Exercise Physiology in Health and Disease |
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List B |
Drugs in the Nervous System |
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Teaching Block 2 (B) |
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List A |
Neural Basis of Behaviour |
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List A |
Neuroscience of Pain |
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List B |
Receptor signalling and non-drug therapies |
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List B |
New Horizons in Medicine |
Pharmacology
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Intercalation course structure for BSc Pharmacology |
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Units (totalling 120 credit points) |
Components |
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Concepts and skills (mandatory) Teaching Block 1 20 CP
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Experimental Design and Statistics (40%) Graphical Abstract (20%) Experimental Design conference abstract (20%) and presentation (20%) |
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Research project* (mandatory) Teaching Blocks 1 and 2 40 CP
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Dissertation (80%) Project Talk (10%) Supervisor's Assessment (10%) |
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Molecular Pharmacology (mandatory) Teaching Block 1 20 CP |
Timed assessment essay (60%) Data interpretation exam (40%) |
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Receptor Signalling and Non-Drug Therapies (mandatory) Teaching Block 2 20 CP |
Timed assessment essay (50%) Data interpretation/experimental design exam (50%) |
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Optional unit** Choose 1 optional Teaching Block 2 unit: |
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Drugs in the Nervous System (recommended) Synaptic Plasticity Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Exercise Physiology in Health and Disease
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All assessed by: Timed assessment essay (50%) Data interpretation/experimental design exam (50%) |
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Physiology
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Intercalation course structure for BSc Physiological Science |
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Units (totalling 120 credit points) |
Components |
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Concepts and skills (mandatory) Teaching Block 1 20 CP
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Experimental Design and Statistics (40%) Graphical Abstract (20%) Experimental Design conference abstract (20%) and presentation (20%) |
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Research project* (mandatory) Teaching Blocks 1 and 2 40 CP |
Dissertation (80%) Project Talk (10%) Supervisor's Assessment (10%) |
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Optional units**– in total you can choose 3 optional units – 1 from Teaching Block 1, 1 from Teaching Block 2 (A), and 1 from Teaching Block 2 (B). All optional units are worth 20 CP. Optional units are assessed by a timed assessment essay and a data interpretation/experimental design exam.
Units are in List A (preferred Neuroscience units) and List B (Physiology or Pharmacology units) You may only choose one unit from List B across all options, so you should either choose: • three List A units, or • two List A units and one List B unit |
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Teaching Block 1 |
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List A |
The Heart in Health & Disease |
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List A |
The Rhythms of Life |
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List B |
Molecular Pharmacology |
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List B |
Synaptic Cell Biology |
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Teaching Block 2 (A) |
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List A |
Exercise Physiology in Health and Disease |
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List B |
Synaptic Plasticity |
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List B |
Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders |
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List B |
Drugs in the Nervous System |
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Teaching Block 2 (B) |
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List A |
Neural Basis of Behaviour |
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List A |
Neuroscience of Pain |
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List A |
New Horizons in Medicine |
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List B |
Receptor signalling and non-drug therapies |
* Note that several types of projects are available, including experimental, non-experimental (literature based), public engagement and teaching. You choose a number of preferred projects from a list which we will then use to allocate projects, but we cannot guarantee that you will be allocated to a particular project or project type.
** Note that you are able to express a preference for which optional units you would like to study, but we cannot guarantee that you will be able to take a particular optional unit if it is oversubscribed.
How to apply
Find out more about intercalated degrees at Bristol and how to apply.
More information about our units
To find out more about our units, please follow this link.