Does anyone know any good access into medicine courses online?

Hi,
I’m currently about to go into my final year of A-levels. My plan is to go into university of Manchester to study ‘humanitarian response and crisis management BSC’ - when I started my a levels I didn’t know what I wanted to do, however I knew I wanted to go into something ‘helpful’ towards people (hence the funny a levels choice) I study classical civilisations, psych, and art. However, during my gap year I want to do an online access into medicine course because during my course I have many ‘optional’ modules and am planning on doing medicine modules that work with humanitarian work (like infectious disease, etc), and to do those I have to prove I can keep up with the subject. Medicine courses would also work with my job in the future such as first aid.

So, does anyone know any good/legitimate online access to medicine courses online that I can do within the year?
Thank you!

That degree is taught within the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. I know it pretty well as a result of their partnerships with Save the Children and Médecins Sans Frontières. The institute was cofounded by a former president of MSF and they retain strong links across the humanitarian sector. If you're interested in a career in that field their BSc is an excellent choice.

However, doing an access to medicine course would add nothing to your application, and I mean absolutely nothing. Firstly, access to medicine courses don't teach any first aid. They teach the foundational sciences that you're likely to need for preclinical medicine. There's no practical component at all.

Secondly, those modules on global health, infectious disease, etc. are not actually medical in nature. They won't teach you about the physiological nature of the disease and how to treat it. What they will teach you is about global trends in public health, how to gather and analyse data on those trends, and common barriers to the delivery of healthcare in crisis situations. These types of courses are not designed to produce medical doctors. Medical school does that. They are meant to produce the logisticians who coordinate the response, the field researchers and statisticians who gather and interpret relevant data, the communications personnel who write about it, the civil servants who work in policy-orientated advisory roles, and so on. If you want to actually treat patients, you need to be a medical doctor or other registered healthcare professional in a discipline routinely employed by humanitarian organisations.

Basically, if your A-levels meet the entry requirements for that BSc, you're already prepared to study it. If you want to do some extra prep, try listening to the institute's podcasts or do some wider reading around the history and development of humanitarian work. If you're really keen, and you can do it without hurting your grades in your current subjects, start learning a language (French, Arabic, and Spanish are in high demand across the sector as it is now, and teach-yourself resources for these languages are easy to find). But don't waste time and energy on trying to find online courses that aren't relevant and won't help you.