Preparing for Medicine

Preparing For Medicine is free. We will even cover travel costs to UEA.

Students should sign up themselves – but they can always ask our Outreach team for help. Bookings aren’t open yet, but details of how they apply will be on the UEA website.

Yes, to take part your students will need to:

• • • Live in Norfolk or Suffolk
    • Be in Year 12 or Level 3 Year 1
    • Have the GCSE grades needed for one of the  UEA medical courses. If you are planning on retaking GCSEs to achieve this level, you are still eligible to apply but need to outline this in your application.
  • And either:
    • Live in a TUNDRA quintile 1 or 2 postcode*
  • Or:
    • Have currently or previously been eligible for Free School Meals
    • Be care experienced
      • Being care experienced means you will have spent time living with foster carers under local authority care, in residential care (e.g. a children’s home), looked after at home under a supervision order, or in kinship care with relatives or friends, either officially (e.g. a special guardianship order) or informally without local authority support
    • Are estranged
      • An estranged person is someone who no longer has the support of their parents, and often also other family members, due to a permanent breakdown in their relationship which has led to ceased contact. This might mean your biological, step or adoptive parents or wider family members who have been responsible for supporting you in the past.
  • As long as you meet any of the criteria above, you will be considered for the activity. If there are more applicants than there are spaces, we will randomly select from the eligible applicants. If you have not been randomly selected, we will place you on a waiting list and you may be able to join the activity if someone else drops out.

UEA will use the Office for Students ‘Search by Postcode’ tool to check eligibility for this program. If you want to pre-check that you are eligible, you can do so by following these instructions.

• • • Go to the Office for Students ‘Search by Postcode’ website
    • Read the statement and if you agree, click on the box
    • Enter your postcode of where you live
    • Look at the second line which says TUNDRA MSOA, which Quintile are you in?
    • If you are in Quintile 1 (like the example below) or if it says Quintile 2, then you are eligible to apply to Preparing for Medicine.