[2] As well as the emphasis on anatomy, BSMS also gives early clinical exposure, with students from preclinical years regularly going on placements in both the primary and secondary care sectors.

Having originally had a yearly intake of approximately 120 students, BSMS now admits approximately 200 each year onto the BMBS degree, following the UK Government's required expansion of medical student places in 2017[3] BSMS offers a number of full and part-time postgraduate courses, as well as research degrees.

[citation needed] Students will undertake a range of clinical placements, mainly at the Royal Sussex but extending into other trust and primary care settings.

The University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a full range of clinical specialties with major centres in cardiology/cardiovascular surgery, cancer, renal dialysis, neurosurgery and HIV medicine.

In later years, the focus becomes clinical skills, managing undifferentiated symptoms, minor illness and chronic disease.

[citation needed] In Year 5 students undertake clinical attachments in two different regional locations allocated from: Chichester, Eastbourne, Hastings, Haywards Heath, Redhill, Worthing and Brighton.

[citation needed] The Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre (CISC) is located on the University campus at Falmer.

It houses an integrated Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography (PET-CT) imaging system, a 3T and a 1.5T Magnetic Resonance (MR) scanner.

[citation needed] The Institute of Postgraduate Medicine (IPGM) was founded in 2000 with Professor Richard Vincent as the Head of School.

With 80 modules up to Masters level, IPGM provides three main programmes of study including: Clinical Specialties – Cardiology, Diabetes, Nephrology, Trauma & Orthopaedics.

Participants gain an understanding of public health and management issues and the various roles of all the professionals involved in both the statutory and non-statutory sectors.

[citation needed] All BSMS students are automatically members of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society which meets monthly on Thursday evenings at the Audrey Emerton Building main lecture theatre.

It is similar to a university students' union and acts as an umbrella organisation - providing funding and support for various societies and sports clubs at the medical school.

Delegates included over 250 students from all UK medical schools and individuals from the BSMS BrightMed (outreach program).

Founded in 2016 it has held a number of events which raised many funds for local charities and supported the medical school for occasions such as the annual careers fair.

The BSMS Men's Football Team won the first intramural league, based at the University of Brighton, and finished sixth at the National Association of Medics' Sports tournament in Dublin.

[citation needed] On Wednesday, 22 March 2012 BSMS Men's Football secured the league title with a 7–1 victory over CSL.

The following weekend the team reached the semi-finals of the National Association of Medics' Sports 2012 tournament in Dundee, Scotland.