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Course Structure:
The first module of year one is ‘The Human Life Cycle a Holistic Approach’ is an introduction module to PBL, each other, the weekly primary care and university life. The module ends with a secondary care attachment and finally a module OSCE. Within the year you will also have assignments such as a self-reflective portfolio essay and an Analytical Review of a paper. All coursework will have specific lectures and seminars to guide you through. The second module is Locomotion learning Orthopaedics and Rheumatology once again having both a primary and secondary care attachment as well as a module OSCE.
At the end of the year all students in all years have an integrative period consisting of an OSCE and two written papers: the SAQ (Short Answer Questions where you have to write a short answer to 15 questions with a total of 5 marks each) and the EMQ (Extended Matching Questions which is a multiple choice of 120 questions and some single best answer questions).
All other years are set out very similarly except the number of modules and therefore number of OSCE’s sat in one year.
The basic module structure is as follows:
Year 2:
3) Blood and skin – Dermatology and Haematology
4) Circulation - Cardiology, Vascular and Stroke medicine
5) Respiration - Respiratory medicine
Year 3:
6) Homeostasis / hormones - Endocrinology, Renal medicine and Urology
7) The senses - Neurology, Opthalmology and ENT (Ear, nose and throat)
8) Nutrition / digestion - Gastroenterology, medicine and surgery
Year 4:
9) Reproduction (Obstetrics and Gynaecology and sexual health)
10) Growth and development (Paediatrics)
11) The Mind and Body (psychiatry, medicine for elderly, oncology and palliative care)
12) Away elective
Year 5:
12) Elective
13) Emergency medicine - A&E
14) Shadowing – Shadowing an FY1 and learning their role to start your job in the August of graduating.
15) Internal elective
Secondary care placements are in:
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in Norwich
James Paget University Hospital in Great Yarmouth
Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn
Ipswich Hospital
More info:
Find out more on the Norwich Medical School website.
The first module of year one is ‘The Human Life Cycle a Holistic Approach’ is an introduction module to PBL, each other, the weekly primary care and university life. The module ends with a secondary care attachment and finally a module OSCE. Within the year you will also have assignments such as a self-reflective portfolio essay and an Analytical Review of a paper. All coursework will have specific lectures and seminars to guide you through. The second module is Locomotion learning Orthopaedics and Rheumatology once again having both a primary and secondary care attachment as well as a module OSCE.
At the end of the year all students in all years have an integrative period consisting of an OSCE and two written papers: the SAQ (Short Answer Questions where you have to write a short answer to 15 questions with a total of 5 marks each) and the EMQ (Extended Matching Questions which is a multiple choice of 120 questions and some single best answer questions).
All other years are set out very similarly except the number of modules and therefore number of OSCE’s sat in one year.
The basic module structure is as follows:
Year 2:
3) Blood and skin – Dermatology and Haematology
4) Circulation - Cardiology, Vascular and Stroke medicine
5) Respiration - Respiratory medicine
Year 3:
6) Homeostasis / hormones - Endocrinology, Renal medicine and Urology
7) The senses - Neurology, Opthalmology and ENT (Ear, nose and throat)
8) Nutrition / digestion - Gastroenterology, medicine and surgery
Year 4:
9) Reproduction (Obstetrics and Gynaecology and sexual health)
10) Growth and development (Paediatrics)
11) The Mind and Body (psychiatry, medicine for elderly, oncology and palliative care)
12) Away elective
Year 5:
12) Elective
13) Emergency medicine - A&E
14) Shadowing – Shadowing an FY1 and learning their role to start your job in the August of graduating.
15) Internal elective
Secondary care placements are in:
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in Norwich
James Paget University Hospital in Great Yarmouth
Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn
Ipswich Hospital
More info:
Find out more on the Norwich Medical School website.