The Norwich (UEA) Medicine courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Norwich (UEA) medicine course at a glance
Problem-based learning in groups of nine or ten, with placements from the very first week and roughly half the course spent on placement. The teaching hospital is 100 metres from the medical school.
How Norwich (UEA) teaches medicine
Problem-based learning is the spine of the course — students explore clinical case scenarios in groups of nine to ten, with modules organised by body system.
What that means day to day
When you first meet patients
Placements start from the first week of the course, and students spend time every week in clinical practice so they can apply their learning to patients in the same week.
Where you will actually be at Norwich (UEA)
Placement geography is the part of a medicine course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Norwich (UEA) publishes.
The medical school has links to five hospitals. Around 50% of the course is spent on placement across hospitals, community services, general practice, social services and voluntary or private organisations.
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Worth knowing about Norwich (UEA)
- The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is just 100 metres from Norwich Medical School.
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How to get into Norwich (UEA)
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
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University of East Anglia (Norwich)'s course page could not be read directly by our tooling — it either sits behind a bot wall or renders in the browser — so this page was built from the university's own published course and school pages, checked on 2026-09-11. Confirm the detail against the official page before you rely on it.
Primary source: University of East Anglia (Norwich) — official course information.
Courses are restructured between cycles. Anything here that decides your application — an anatomy offer, a placement city, a compulsory intercalated year — should be confirmed against the official page for your entry year.
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