MBBS Medicine with a Gateway Year

Course Overview

What to expect in your Gateway Year

You'll join a small cohort of enthusiastic and motivated students who will work together to gain the academic knowledge and skills you need to progress smoothly onto our five-year medical degree. We work hard to support you and to ensure that you feel like a medical student from day one, as you start developing your professional identity through dedicated modules delivered by Norwich Medical School. The medicine foundation year offers opportunities for clinical shadowing and clinical experiences with local health care providers including the NHS.

The Medicine with a Gateway Year programme maps to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We encourage students to be curious and invest in the world around them and to be agents for positive change.

What to expect after the Gateway Year

Upon successful completion of the Gateway Year, you'll continue your medical studies on the five-year MBBS Medicine degree programme, which is organised into modules based on body systems. We aim to produce fully rounded medical graduates; therefore, you'll study the underpinning biological, social and clinical sciences of medicine. You'll then put theory into practice while on placements in hospitals and general practices.

You'll continue to work in small groups, using problem-based learning (PBL) techniques to apply your learning to virtual scenarios. In parallel you'll receive teaching in primary care; meeting the patients that can bring these scenarios to life. You'll have opportunities for practical, hands-on opportunities, to hone your knowledge and practical skills through dissections and communication skills in both simulated and real healthcare environments.

Your learning will be supported by a weekly programme of lectures and seminars, and complemented by attachments in secondary care hospitals, some of which may be residential.

For information on subsequent years of study, please see the full MBBS Medicine course profile.

Entry Requirements

Employability

Once you have successfully completed your MB BS, if there are no concerns regarding your fitness to practice, you’ll be entitled to provisional registration with the General Medical Council. You'll then be able to practise in approved Foundation Year One posts.

If you'd like our support during this year, you can apply to work in our local medicine Foundation year Programme. Once you have completed a satisfactory year as a Foundation Programme doctor, you'll gain full registration with the GMC.

Examples of careers that you could enter include:

• Hospital-based specialties including medicine, surgery, anaesthetics, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, emergency medicine, radiology and pathology
• General Practice
• Psychiatry
• Public Health

Discover more on our Careers pages.