FOI_26-251 MBBS Medicine curriculum mapping
Date of response: 29 October 2026
We have now considered your clarification of 19 October 2025 for the following information:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting the following information about the MBBS Medicine programme at Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia. The request covers the academic year 2026/27.
I note that the published course information refers to developing the personal and professional skills required for a medical career. However, I was unable to find detailed published information about how leadership and management teaching is delivered and assessed within the programme.
Please provide:
Question 1. Curriculum mapping: Any document showing how the programme maps to the leadership and management outcomes, including team working, in the GMC’s Outcomes for Graduates (2018).
Clarification received 19 October 2026
I can confirm that my request relates to the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS):
• (A100)
• (A101)
Our response:
Please see FOI_26-251 Appendix A.
Question 2. Teaching content: The titles, descriptors, aims, learning objectives and year of delivery of any modules, themes, sessions or curriculum strands that explicitly include leadership or management teaching.
Our response:
Please see FOI_26-251 Appendix A.
Question 3. Assessment: Whether leadership or management is formally assessed and, if so, the assessment methods used and the year(s) of the programme in which these assessments take place.
Our response:
Leadership and management is assessed through professional behaviour e.g. chairing in PBL, reflective practice assignments including developing leadership skills, an exit interview including future careers planning, OSCE and AKT questions linked to the LOS in Sofia where relevant to the assessment item.
Question 4. Optional opportunities: A list of any intercalated degrees, student-selected components, electives or other optional opportunities with a leadership or management focus that are available to medical students.
If any of the requested information is already publicly available, please provide the relevant link or indicate where it can be accessed.
Our response:
1. Students have the option to intercalate in Leadership and Management anywhere in the UK at a medical school that offers this as an intercalated masters. We do not have a UEA Masters in this area of practice.
2. We ran a Leadership SSC from 2018 - 2022. We ran a leadership award in 2023
3. MBBS Leadership Award (Norwich Medical School)
A document titled describes a leadership award open to MBBS students. Applicants are asked to submit:
• A 500-word description of a leadership activity/project undertaken during the MBBS course.
• A 500-word reflective account demonstrating leadership learning.
• Supporting evidence such as feedback or evaluation.
• Individual submissions are required, although group projects are permitted
The award is judged against leadership criteria including:
• Demonstrating personal qualities
• Working with others
• Managing services
• Improving services
• Setting direction
The document references the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) leadership curriculum as the underpinning framework.
The 2023 version awarded:
• Bronze: score over 10
• Silver: score over 20
• Gold: score over 25
4. Student Representation (Leadership Experience)
The MB BS Student Representation Handbook 2025-26_V1 states that Student Representatives have an influential role in shaping the course and ensuring the student voice is heard. While not described as a formal leadership award, this is clearly a leadership and governance opportunity available to students.
5. Any university-wide opportunities such as Students' Union officer roles, student ambassador schemes, peer mentoring schemes, or employability leadership programmes, available from UEA and available to Undergraduate Medical students
The below is an extract from an email which outlines proposed changes to the curriculum in relation to leadership:
'Action: I was after advice and approval in your capacity as year leads to a change in the years we teach the leadership theme on the MB BS A100/ A104 course.
I am suggested that no content is removed at this stage, but we shift it along to the later years, where students have more clinical exposure and can relate to the information they are being taught.
The leadership team, which comprises of Norwich Business School colleagues, currently teaches 4 x hours in year 1 and 4 x hours in year 2.
The year 1 focus is theory and the self, year 2 is working in teams and creating psychological safety. I have mapped in blue below where the leadership theme team teach to the outcome for graduates. Where there is nothing, we do not cover this content as it is clinical and we are a non-clinical team.
Outcome for graduates – Outcome 1 – Professional values and behaviours – leadership and team working
Leadership and team working
8 Newly-qualified doctors must recognise the role of doctors in contributing to the management and leadership of the health service.
They must be able to:
a. Describe the principles of how to build teams and maintain effective team work and interpersonal relationships with a clear shared purpose – Currently year 2
b. Undertake various team roles including, where appropriate, demonstrating leadership and the ability to accept and support leadership by others
c. Identify the impact of their behaviour on others – Currently year 1 & 2
d. Describe theoretical models of leadership and management that may be applied to practice. – Currently year 1
9 Newly-qualified doctors must learn and work effectively within a multiprofessional and multidisciplinary team and across multiple care settings. This includes working face to face and through written and electronic means, and in a range of settings where patients receive care, including community, primary, secondary, mental health, specialist tertiary and social care settings and in patients’ homes.
They must be able to:
a. Demonstrate their contribution to effective interdisciplinary team working with doctors from all care settings and specialties, and with other health and social care professionals for the provision of safe and high-quality care
b. Work effectively with colleagues in ways that best serve the interests of patients. This includes:
• safely passing on information using clear and appropriate spoken, written and electronic communication
• at handover in a hospital setting and when handing over and maintaining continuity of care in primary, community and social care settings
• when referring to colleagues for investigations or advice
• when things go wrong, for example when errors happen
• questioning colleagues during handover where appropriate
• working collaboratively and supportively with colleagues to share experiences and challenges that encourage learning
• responding appropriately to requests from colleagues to attend patients
• applying flexibility, adaptability and a problem-solving approach to shared decision making with colleagues.
c. Recognise and show respect for the roles and expertise of other health and social care professionals and doctors from all specialties and care settings in the context of working and learning as a multiprofessional team.
Current provision
• Year 1 – 1 x workshop in Autumn semester 1 x workshop in Spring semester.
• Year 2 – 1 x workshop in Autumn semester 1 x workshop in Spring semester.
• Year 3 – no teaching
• Year 4 – no teaching
• Year 5 – no teaching
Suggested provision
• Keep the same workshops, but more them to later in the student journey. Students in years 1 and 2 are not experienced enough to learn the impact of leadership in a clinical setting.
• Year 1 – UEA Award Bronze (this is University scheme that is scaffolded by careers services)
• Year 2 – UEA Award Silver
• Year 3 – 1 x workshop in Autumn semester 1 x workshop in Spring semester.
• Year 4 – 1 x workshop in Autumn semester 1 x workshop in Spring semester.
• Year 5 – UEA Award Gold
This would align comms skills sessions in year 4, where they start looking at communication with colleagues.'