Teaching and Learning

Your tutors will support and encourage you to develop an independent attitude to learning, such as making decisions about how to tackle key subjects and researching and discussing them with fellow students.

This approach will prepare you for life as a qualified doctor, when you will take responsibility for keeping your knowledge up to date through continuing professional development.

The teaching methods employed will ensure that you can both understand the principles of medicine and apply your knowledge in the same way when treating a patient.

When compared with more traditional programmes, formal lectures play a smaller part in the MBBS Malta programme.

Practical sessions

In the early part of the programme, sessions take place in our clinical rooms, equipped with computers and closed-circuit television.

Communication skills

You will receive practical training in interviewing techniques and special sessions devoted to communication between doctors and their patients.

Project work

Project work will bring you into contact with the local community through working with GPs and community tutors.

Team-based learning

A new and central element of the medical curriculum is team-based learning (TBL). TBL involves large groups of students—often the entire cohort—working in teams to apply core knowledge to clinical problems, under the guidance of a facilitator and a subject content expert.

Effective teamwork is fundamental to TBL. Individual pre-session preparation, followed by in-session team discussion and decision-making, reinforces understanding and accountability, while application-focused tasks develop clinical reasoning and communication skills. This approach promotes active participation and the practical application of knowledge in a clinical context.