From my personal experience, I started 3 years ago as a 4 year graduate entry medicine at NVU. We have been told that we have to do the full 6 years in order to be recognised by the GMC. However, SME continues to market false information on their website. For example, the graduate entry route is not recognised by the GMC, the Derby campus is not functional, there is no online studies now because pandemic is over unless you are critically ill or any other good reason and cannot travel to Tbilisi on time then they will give you online links in order for you to catch up on lectures. All lectures and practicals are currently offline. And there is patient contact during clinical years and you will have experience in different hospitals depending on which clinical modules you are taking. For example those taking paediatric will have placement in the children's hospital, those taking nephrology will have placement in the kidney dialysis hospital etc. Its not like the UK where every department is in one big hospital. The good thing is the university is well recognised in other parts of the world for the 6 years medicine degree and I hope that in the future the GMC will not change their mind about accepting the degree too. I know personally of 1 person who have graduated from NVU and took PLAB 1 this past November. But I heard they are other students who took PLAB 1 too from NVU. However, they all did the full 6 years medical degree.
Had it been I knew I will have to do the full 6 years, I would have gone to study in Bulgaria.
Just note, if you are planning to study at NVU, be ready to study for 6 years and be ready to relocate.