STUDENT ELECTIVE ATTACHMENTS IN BRISTOL

STUDENT ELECTIVE ATTACHMENTS IN BRISTOL

The Clinical Dean's office commonly receives enquiries, usually from members of the NHS and academic staff, about Elective attachments for students from outside the University of Bristol Medical School. I hope you will find the following information helpful.

The University of Bristol Medical School provides facilities for Elective experience for students, usually but not exclusively from abroad. These Elective attachments must be arranged through the office of the Clinical Dean. Accommodation is provided free of charge, but students pay for their own food.

A total of no more than four students can be expected on Elective attachment at any one time. Applications for Electives from visiting students are only considered for those in the Final Year of their studies. The minimum period of attachment is four weeks and the maximum period of eight weeks. Periods of attachment longer than eight weeks are not regarded as Elective attachments and these require formal application for admission to the University and will attract tuition fees. The Elective attachment scheme is extremely popular. The facilities for Electives are in great demand and are usually booked up well in advance. It is usually necessary to apply at least one year in advance for attachments, particularly at popular times of the year.

Elective students have full access to the normal range of University facilities and are subject to the same regulations as Bristol students.

There is, of course, nothing to prevent a NHS consultant from making a private arrangement with a visiting student. It should be clearly understood, however, that such privately arranged Elective attachments are outside the University's system and such students do not have access to University facilities (accommodation, libraries, lectures, tutorials etc). Such students are not insured by the University for professional negligence or accidents. The University is not able to certify any courses undertaken by such students which are not provided by, or under the control of the University.

The responsibility for ensuring that the requirements of the National Health Service Management Executive (for example those that govern the access of students to patients and clinical areas, or those which govern the immunisation and other health requirements) are entirely the responsibility of the consultant who arranges the private attachment, or the Medical Personnel Department of the hospital concerned.

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