Information for medical schools
Everything a programme director, curriculum committee or quality office needs in order to adopt one or both of our European core ECTS modules — what they contain, how they fit inside an existing MD curriculum, who awards the credit, and how the standard is assured.
Reviewed and kept current
Last editorial review: 2 August 2026 · Next scheduled refresh: 1 September 2026.
What is offered
Two four-credit core modules for senior undergraduate medical students, each built on United Kingdom and European health policy taught as a subject in its own right, and applied to current guideline-directed clinical practice.
European Health Policy and the Prevention of Cardiometabolic Multiple Long-Term Conditions
Hypercholesterolaemia, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease, with heart failure, atrial fibrillation, steatotic liver disease and obesity — taught against the policy architecture intended to prevent them.
🌿European Women’s Health across the Life-Course — WHEEL
Menopause and bone health, migraine, diagnostic delay, cancer pathways and perimenopausal neurodevelopmental presentation — taught against European gender-health law and a recently rewritten national strategy.
A programme may adopt either module, or both across a single academic year, with the same cohort or with different ones. Read the full programme overview →
How a module sits inside an existing MD programme
The design principle is substitution, not addition. Four credits are delivered inside a host clinical module by learning agreement, producing no net change to a 360-credit degree and no extension to the length of study.
A typical adoption runs over one semester of preparation before the teaching begins.
Host modules that fit well
We map the module against your published learning outcomes before anything is agreed, so the substitution can be evidenced to your quality office rather than asserted.
Who awards the credit
Your institution does. The Acumen Institute of Primary Care does not award academic credit and makes no claim to do so. ECTS credit is awarded by the host medical school under its own regulations, through its own examination board, and appears on its own transcript.
Our role is to supply a fully specified module — curriculum, teaching materials, assessment instruments, marking rubrics and standard-setting — and to deliver the teaching. Yours is to award the credit, ratify the marks and satisfy your regulator. That division is deliberate: it keeps academic authority where it belongs and makes the arrangement straightforward for a quality office to approve.
The two ratios above describe different things and are always stated with their qualifying phrase. Assessment weighting can be adjusted to meet national regulation without altering the taught curriculum.
Who does what
The division of responsibility is fixed and written into the delivery agreement, so there is no ambiguity once teaching begins.
Quality assurance and content currency
Guidance in both fields changes faster than a conventional curriculum revision cycle can accommodate. Four mechanisms hold the standard.
Named clinical editorial sign-off
Every change to taught content is appraised, mapped to the affected learning outcome and signed off by a named clinical editor before publication.
🔄Six-monthly refresh
Institutional packages are automatically refreshed every six months, so your copy reflects evolving guidance without local rebuilding.
🗂Version and review stamp
Students and reviewers can see which version of the content they are working from, and when it was last reviewed.
⚖️Moderation and external review
A sampled human moderation of marking is retained permanently, alongside whatever external examiner arrangement your regulations require.
An audit trail records what was taught on any given date and on what evidence base — the record a quality office or accrediting authority is entitled to ask for.
Dates and adoption windows
Both modules run twice each academic year, so a single cohort can take both across one year, or two cohorts can be served in parallel.
First delivery of both modules is November 2026 as core ECTS units within an MD programme, with a Georgian medical school partnering with the Institute. Schools considering adoption for the 2027–28 academic year should begin curriculum mapping by March 2027 to allow a full semester for internal approval.
Common questions
Anything not covered here — assessment ratification, timetabling, staff briefing, accessibility, or evidence for a quality submission — is addressed in the specification pack. Ask us directly →
Considering a module for your programme?
We will send the full module specification, the assessment blueprint, the hour-by-hour workload map and a sample teaching week, and map the module against your published learning outcomes before anything is agreed.
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