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Medical school: credit inside the degree, and a start on the portfolio

Credit-bearing modules taught with New Vision University and East-West University, Tbilisi, inside their elective curricula; a four-week UK primary-care observership; and Acumen Ascent, the free portfolio programme.

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Last editorial review: 10 October 2026 · Next scheduled refresh: 10 April 2027.

Undergraduate ECTS modules UK Primary Care Observership Acumen Ascent For medical schools
Undergraduate ECTS modules

Undergraduate ECTS modules

Two modules, each four weeks of live webinars and one week on campus: Cardio-renal-metabolic medicine and heart failure (EU-CKM, 6 ECTS) and WHEEL: women’s health equity across the European life-course (4 ECTS). Credit is awarded by your medical school under its own regulations; MD Acumen teaches and assesses.

Places

Places on the November 2026 modules

Each module takes up to 30 students per partner university. Ask your medical school for the joining code.

European core ECTS modules

Dates, structure and the syllabus of both modules.

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Cardio-renal-metabolic (EU-CKM)

Policy, risk stratification, heart failure and CKD, lipids and blood pressure, diabetes and obesity.

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WHEEL: women’s health

Delays in presentation, menopause and cardiometabolic risk, osteoporosis and migraine, cancer referral.

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UK Primary Care Observership

UK Primary Care Observership

Four weeks in NHS general practice in Hertfordshire and Essex, with seminars, a supervised two-cycle clinical audit and a Certificate of Completion signed by the Director.

The observership

What it is, who it is for, and how it is arranged with your school.

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The four-week curriculum

Week by week.

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For students

What to expect, what to bring, how the audit works.

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For universities

Commissioning places for a cohort.

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Acumen Ascent

Acumen Ascent

A free, self-paced programme through the four evidence domains every selection panel weighs: audit and quality improvement, publication, teaching and achievement.

Acumen Ascent

The programme, the audit cycle and the Certificate of Quality Improvement Activity.

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For medical schools

For medical schools

Blended intensive modules (Erasmus-style) delivered to your syllabus, and observership places for your students.

Partner with us

How a module or an observership cohort is set up.

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Where this rung sits

The same method runs from the first clinical year to advanced practice. Each rung builds on the one before.

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