This course aims to educate students to become compassionate, thoughtful, skilled members – and leaders – of the medical profession. Success in medicine requires application and hard work, both while studying and when in practice. However, it brings great rewards in terms of job satisfaction, involving, as it does, a combination of science with human interactions and numerous career opportunities. This four-year course (45 study weeks a year) integrates core medical science with clinical medicine, with an emphasis on the development of clinical skills through direct patient contact in hospital and community environments throughout the East of England. Open to outstanding UK/EU graduates of any discipline, successful completion of the accelerated Graduate Course leads to the MB, BChir degrees in four years. International/overseas graduates may apply for the Standard Course as an affiliate student. There is a broad spectrum of hospital and community based careers across general practice, medicine, surgery, psychiatry and other specialities. Increasingly, doctors will be expected to deliver healthcare in a range of clinical settings. Most UK graduates go on to work in the NHS, and about 40% become general practitioners.