iBSc Induction Hub

The condition of your intercalated BSc offer is that you successfully complete the 2023-24 academic year and arrange for your home university to send your academic transcript or written confirmation that you have passed to our Admissions Team (medicine.pg.admissions@imperial.ac.uk). The deadline to meet the condition of your offer is Friday 30 August.

Please note that this must be sent by a staff member at your home University. Confirmation received directly from students unfortunately cannot be accepted.

Students on a Tier 4 Visa

If you are an overseas student on a Tier 4 visa, we additionally require you to arrange for the Visa Compliance team at your home university to email our Admissions Team (medicine.pg.admissions@imperial.ac.uk) confirming their continued visa sponsorship and grant permission to use your Tier 4 visa to attend Imperial.

Your College ID card is a multi-purpose, personalised identification key for everything you do across campus. 

It grants you acccess to campus buildings, is your library and printing card, and even allows you to get your discount in College catering outlets. Make sure you carry your card with you whenever you are on campus.

Collecting your ID card

You will receive your ID card at the BSc Induction Morning on Monday 23 September. Please make sure you have uploaded your picture via My Imperial at least 2 weeks before the start of term as this may delay you getting your ID card. If you can't upload your picture via My Imperial, your picture can be taken at the ID card office.

Replacing lost, stolen or damaged ID cards

If you lose your card during your year at Imperial or it is stolen or damaged, you need to report this to the ID card office immediately. They will deactivate your card and make sure no one is using it fraudulently.

The first time this happens, the ID card office can replace your card free of charge. Any time afterwards, you'll be charged £10.

ID card office opening hours

The South Kensington ID Card office is open from 09.30 to 13.30, Monday to Friday on the ground floor of the Sherfield Building. 

If you have any questions, please contact id.card@imperial.ac.uk  

You should receive your Autumn term timetable 2 weeks before the start of term. If you have any queries regarding your timetable you can contact your BSc Course Administrator. 

Your timetable will be pushed into your Imperial Outlook account calendar using a timetabling system called CELCAT.

Please find information about term dates in the BSc Dates and Course Structure 2024-25 (PDF).

A Pre-BSc Research Skills Course has been developed to help you prepare for your BSc and get you up to speed on the research skills you will need for BSc assessments. You will be sent the link to the course at the start of September.

The course modules include:

• Reading Science
• Scientific Methods
• Interpreting Science
• Communicating Science

iBSc Welcome Event

Before the start of term there will be an online welcome event for intercalating students which will include an introduction to life at Imperial, talks from past intercalating students and an opportunity to meet your BSc Course Director.

This online event will take place in September. The date and time will be confirmed in due course and you will be contacted over the summer with further information.  

BSc Cohort Connect

BSc Cohort Connect is a buddy scheme where new intercalating students and internal Imperial medical students are matched based on shared interests. Students are usually matched in groups of 3 or 4 based on shared interests. 

We hope that you get involved in this scheme and have a great experience starting at Imperial. You will receive sign up details by email in September. 

Imperial College School of Medicine Student Union clubs and societies

While you are at Imperial we recommend that you get involved with the ICSMSU clubs and societies, as well as attending some of the great events they put on throughout the academic year. More information can be found on the ICSMSU website.

Please find information about ICT systems at Imperial in the ICT resources for new students. This page includes guidance on:

• How to activate your College account
• How to set up your email account
• How to connect to Imperial WiFi
• Where you can use computers on campus
• How to contact ICT if you need help

BSc Induction morning

Monday 23 September (AM)

Module 1 – Taught Component

Monday 23 September – Friday 13 December (12 weeks)

• In this module, you will gain BSc specialism-specific knowledge and skills.
• The module is split into three 4-week blocks. Three weeks of each block will be face to face teaching and the fourth week of each block will be a consolidation week.
• Face-to-face teaching will be supplemented by online teaching materials in a flipped classroom approach, allowing you to practise critical questioning and thinking.
• The consolidation weeks give you the opportunity to pause, reflect, revise, prepare, undertake in-course assessment tasks, and receive feedback.

Module 2 – Self Directed Learning and Group Work

Group Literature Review | Writing up Science in Context: Tuesday Thursday 2 January – Friday 31 January (4 weeks, 2 days)

This module aims to provide you with a collaborative experience of working with your peers to provide a critical synthesis of a scientific problem.

It aims to:

• Enable you to seek and use published data.
• Train you to assess literature, consider caveats and draw appropriate conclusions.
• Teach you to communicate experimental strategies, results and conclusions effectively and succinctly.
• Provide opportunity to participate in the processes of article submission, peer review and rebuttal.
• You will also work independently on a case-based learning task to understand and critique evidence-based practice combined with personalised medicine preparing you to be able to critique the evidence base of your future medical practice.

Module 3 – Research Project

Monday 3 February – Friday 23 May (14 weeks)

This module will enable you to plan and perform supervised research resulting in a project write-up in the style of an academic research paper. It will also include a critical reflection on your research journey.

• Project title allocation normally takes place between November and December.
• You will have the opportunity to choose from a wide variety of supervised research projects, including laboratory-based, and clinical-based projects.

With the exception of BSc Humanities, Philosophy and Law, which has a different assessment sgtructure, all BScs are assessed via 7 items of summative assessment. Please find the BSc mark breakdown below:

BSc Mark Breakdown

There are a variety of online learning platforms that you will use in your BSc:

• Insendi is the main learning environment that you will use to access your course material.
• You will access your assessment marks via MedLearn which will be used to access the student dashboard and assessment marks.
• We use a system called Panopto to record live teaching and provide the recordings to students
• Your course timetable is published to your Outlook calendar using a system called CELCAT.

We will provide further information about these platforms at the iBSc Welcome Event.

Attendance at all structured teaching in your BSc is compulsory and 100% attendance is expected, except where a request for leave has been granted or you are absent for health reasons. Please read the School of Medicine Attendance Policy on MedLearn when you start your BSc for further information.

Absence Reporting

To register absence due to illness of up to 7 calendar days, GP or other medical appointments, you will need to complete the absence log form on MedLearn. 

If you are ill for more than 7 days or suffering from a chronic illness, in addition to completing the online log, you should speak to your Personal Tutor and your Faculty Eduction Office (FEO) Programme Officer/Administrator. For periods longer than 7 consecutive days including weekends, supporting documentation is required e.g. doctor’s letter.

Requesting leave

If you wish to request a leave of absence for any reason other than illness (e.g. for family event or sporting or other extracurricular activities) you should do so in advance, by submitting a leave request on the same form used to report absences. This will be seen by your Programme Officer/Administrator who will liaise with your BSc Course Director.

Please note that, except in exceptional circumstances, a maximum of 3 days is allowed in any one academic year.

Please be aware that although the School of Medicine is very supportive of students participating in extra-curricular and sporting activities we do expect all students to put their medical studies first.

Intercalating students may be entitled to the receive the Imperial College Bursary. More information can be found on the Imperial Bursary web page.

You will be given the opportunity to loan an iPad for your year at Imperial. The iPad will need to be returned at the end of the academic year.

In July we will send you an iPad form to let us know whether you would like to receive a College iPad. We will ask you to complete the form by the end of August.