MBBS Medicine (Graduate Entry)

Course Overview

The Norwich Medical School Graduate Entry Medicine course offers an exciting and innovative four-year pathway to becoming a doctor.

Incorporating the latest medical educational techniques, our dynamic course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in your future medical career and emerge as a leading doctor.

You’ll be taught through a combination of interactive face-to-face sessions, carefully curated online resources, and small group work. Our spiral curriculum ensures you encounter key material multiple times, reinforcing and deepening your learning throughout the course.

From the very beginning of your studies and throughout the course, as a graduate medical student, you’ll spend time with patients, immersing yourself in patient care. In your third year, you’ll undertake a transformative 20-week longitudinal integrated clerkship placement, where you’ll be embedded within a General Practice. This opportunity allows you to follow a cohort of patients and gain a profound understanding of the factors influencing their health.

Placements are strategically located at three hubs across Norfolk and Waveney (King’s Lynn, Great Yarmouth, and Norwich), ensuring you become deeply embedded in the community. This approach not only enhances your direct patient care experience but also involves you in quality improvement projects aimed at elevating local healthcare. During the admissions process, we’ll work with you to determine your preferred placement hub, aligning your training with your career goals.

Employability

Graduates will gain the full range of attributes and skills outlined by the GMC in Outcomes for Graduates and the Medical Licensing Assessment content map. The course will specifically equip you with:  

• Advanced skills in leadership 
• In-depth knowledge and skills of health inequalities, how they arise and how they can be combatted both at the patient and population level 
• Deep insight into the importance of place-based care and appreciation of the variety of locations care is delivered 
• Skills to ensure ongoing continuous professional development and lifelong learning  
• Driving research and innovation, as identified in ‘The Future Doctor’ 

Examples of careers that you could enter include:

• Medicine
• Surgery
• General Practice

Discover more on our Careers pages.