Medicine with Gateway Year
Medicine is the most demanding and most consequential of the professions, requiring a combination of scientific knowledge, clinical skill, communication, and the capacity to make sound judgements under pressure on behalf of patients who are vulnerable and who depend on the doctor's competence and integrity. The training that leads to qualification as a doctor is rigorous, lengthy, and designed to ensure that graduates are genuinely ready to practise safely and effectively from their first day as a foundation doctor.
At Lincoln this six-year full-time MBChB programme includes a gateway year designed to widen access to medicine study, providing a preparatory first year for students who meet the academic potential to study medicine but who would benefit from additional support and foundation before progressing to the full medical curriculum. Students who successfully complete the gateway year automatically progress to the five-year MBChB. The programme aims to develop students into practising medical doctors with strong skills not only in the core clinical disciplines but also in research, leadership, and an understanding of public health, particularly in the rural and coastal contexts that characterise the Lincoln region.
This geographical focus is distinctive and prepares graduates for the specific challenges of serving communities that face different health needs and different access to healthcare than urban populations.
You will study the sciences that underpin medicine, including anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology, alongside clinical skills developed through placements in NHS settings. The programme builds your capacity to think carefully about patients as whole people in social contexts as well as biological systems.
On graduation students are eligible to apply for provisional registration with the General Medical Council and to enter the UK Foundation Programme. From there, the career paths of medicine are wide and long, spanning every clinical specialty, academic medicine, public health, and international practice.