List of medical schools in the United Kingdom

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For a list of past medical schools, see List of historical medical schools in the United Kingdom.
Charterhouse Square, home to Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Medical training has taken place at Barts continuously since its foundation in 1123. Its college of medicine was formally founded in 1843

This list of medical schools in the United Kingdom includes all thirty-two medical schools in the United Kingdom which are recognised by the General Medical Council and lead to a medical degree of a British university. There are twenty-four such schools in England, five in Scotland, two in Wales and one in Northern Ireland. All but Warwick Medical School and Swansea Medical School offer undergraduate courses in medicine. The Bute Medical School (University of St Andrews) and Durham Medical School offer undergraduate pre-clinical courses only, with students proceeding to another medical school for clinical studies. Although Oxford University and Cambridge University offer both pre-clinical and clinical courses in medicine, students who study pre-clinical medicine at one of these universities may move to another university for clinical studies. At other universities students stay at the same university for pre-clinical and clinical. The list is ordered by country and name.

Oxford University, where medical education has taken place since at least the thirteenth century

The earliest place of medical training in Britain is Barts Hospital, now part of Queen Mary, University of London, where it has taken place continuously since its foundation in 1123. Medical teaching has taken place at the University of Oxford since at least the 13th century and its first Regius Professor of medicine appointed in 1546. Medical teaching began at the foundation of University of Aberdeen School of Medicinein 1495, although even as late as 1787 there were calls "for the establishment of a medical school" in Aberdeen[1]. The University of St Andrews began teaching medicine in the late 15th century. The University of Cambridge appointed its first Regius Professor of medicine in 1540 although it is likely teaching occurred well before this date. Teaching began in 1550 at St Thomas's Hospital, London. St George's, University of Londonhas its origins in 1733[2] TheLondon Hospital Medical College (LHMC) was founded in 1785 and is now part of the School of Medicine of Queen Mary, University of London. Formal medical education began at Birmingham in 1767[3] Manchester was founded in its anatomy school of 1814[4] In the early 19th century, Belfast, Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Liverpool, London, and Cambridge were formally established between 1821 and 1842.

The next expansion of medical schools began following the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Medical Education (1965-1968) (the Todd Report), which called for the immediate establishment of new schools in Southampton, Leicester and Nottingham to aid medical education in the United Kingdom;[5][6] all were built between 1970 and 1980. Medical schools at Warwick (located in the City of Coventry), Swansea, Keele (located in the City of Stoke-on-Trent) and Hull (in partnership with York) eventually opened in the 1990s and early 21st century, as well as new medical schools at University of East Anglia (located in the city of Norwich) Durham, Brighton and Sussex, and Plymouth and Exeter. Buckingham University, one of only two private universities in England, is launching a graduate entry medical school in 2010[7] although it offers only post-graduate MD qualifications to doctors already qualified to MB BS or equivalent and does not offer initial medical training approved by the General Medical Council.

England

The School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge.
The Loxley building, part of the Hull York Medical School at the University of Hull
The University College Hospital Cruciform building, used by the UCL Medical School
Shepherd's House, King's College London School of Medicine and Dentistry
The Medical Teaching Centre at Warwick Medical School
The Keele University Medical School.
Name University Established Comments Ref.
Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary,
(University of London) 		1995 Formed by the merger of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital that was founded in 1123 and the London Hospital Medical College, founded in 1785. Degree given: MBBS [8]
University of Birmingham Medical School Birmingham 1828 Formal medical education began at Birmingham in 1767[9]Merged with Mason Science College in 1900. Degree given: MBChB [10][11]
Bristol Medical School Bristol 1833 Merged with the University College, Bristol (now University of Bristol) in 1893. Degree given: MBChB [11][12]
Brighton and Sussex Medical School Brighton
Sussex 		2002 Degree given: BMBS [13]
School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge Cambridge 1842 Teaching of medicine began in 1540. Linked to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. Degree given: MB BChir [14]
Durham University School of Medicine and Health Durham 2001 Result of a partnership with the Newcastle University Medical School. Up till 1963, the Medical School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was part of the University of Durham. [15]
University of East Anglia School of Medicine Health Policy and Practice East Anglia 2000 Degree given: MBBS [16]
Hull York Medical School Hull
York 		2003 Degree given: MBBS [16]
Imperial College School of Medicine Imperial College London 1997 (Charing Cross Hospital- 1818) Formed by the merger of St Mary's Hospital Medical School, the National Heart and Lung Institute, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. Degree given: MBBS [17]
Keele University Medical School Keele
University of Manchester 		1978 Founded as the Department of Postgraduate Medicine; began teaching undergraduate clinical medicine in 2003 using the Manchester curriculum. Based in Stoke-on-Trent/ Degree given: MBChB [18]
King's College London School of Medicine and Dentistry King's College London
(University of London) 		1988 (St Thomas's Hospital- 1550) Result of a merger between King's College London and United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals in 1998. Known as GKT School of Medicine until 2005. Teaching began in 1550 at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Degree given: MBBS [19]
Leeds School of Medicine Leeds 1831 Degree given: MBChB [20]
Leicester Medical School Leicester 1975 Degree given: MBChB [21]
Liverpool Medical School Liverpool 1834 Degree given: MBChB [11]
Manchester Medical School Manchester 1874 Formed from the School of Anatomy at Manchester Royal Infirmary, which opened in 1814. Takes clinical students from the University of St Andrews. Degree given: MBChB [22]
Newcastle University Medical School Newcastle 1834 Up till 1963, the Medical School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was part of the University of Durham. [1] Degree given: MBBS [11]
University of Nottingham Medical School Nottingham 1970 Has an associated graduate school, the University of Nottingham Medical School at Derby. Degree given: BMBS [23]
Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford Oxford 1220-1255 Medicine has been taught at the University of Oxford since the 13th century. Degree given: BM BCh [24]
Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry Exeter
Plymouth 		2000 Run jointly by the University of Exeter and Plymouth University. Degree given: BMBS [16]
UCL Medical School University College London
(University of London) 		1998 (Middlesex Hospital - 1746) A merger in 1987 between the medical schools of Middlesex Hospital (1746) and University College Hospital (1834), and a subsequent merger in 1998 with the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (founded as the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874) formed the present school. Degree given: MB BS [25][26]
Sheffield Medical School Sheffield 1828 Affiliated with the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. Degree given: MBChB [11]
Southampton Medical School Southampton 1971 Degrees given: BMedSc & BM [27]
St George's, University of London St George's
(University of London) 		1751 The second institution in England to provide formal medical education and the only independent healthcare institution in the UK. Degree given: MBBS [28]
Warwick Medical School Warwick 2000 A graduate-entry course in medicine. Previously Leicester-Warwick Medical School. Degree given: MBChB [29][30]

Scotland

The Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen.
Name University Established Comments Ref.
University of Aberdeen School of Medicine Aberdeen 1495 The first medical school in Scotland. Degree given: MBChB [31]
Bute Medical School St Andrews 1899 Medicine taught at St Andrews from 15th century, first MD awarded 1696, first professor appointed 1721, clinical teaching took place in the City of Dundee up till 1967, and after that took place in Manchester. [32]

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Dundee Medical School Dundee 1967 From 1883 to 1897, University College Dundee was independent. From 1893 to 1967 medicine was taught in Dundee as part of the University of St Andrews. After 1967, medical teaching was under the auspices of the University of Dundee. Degree given: MBChB [34]
University of Edinburgh Medical School Edinburgh 1726 Medicine has been taught in this city since the 16th century. degree given: MBChB [35]
Glasgow Medical School Glasgow 1751 Medicine first taught in 1637. Degree given: MBChB [36]

Wales

Name University Established Comments Ref.
Cardiff University School of Medicine Cardiff 1931 Previously known as the Welsh National School of Medicine and the University of Wales College of Medicine. Degree given: MBBCh [37]
Swansea University School of Medicine Swansea 2001 Formed from Swansea’s Postgraduate Medical School. Degree given: MBBCh [38]

Northern Ireland

Name University Established Comment Ref.
Queen's University Belfast Medical School Queen's University Belfast 1821 Degree given: MB BCh BAO [39]

See also

Notes and references

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  7. ^ http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/medicine/undergrad/
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  9. ^ http://www.medicine.bham.ac.uk/histmed/history.shtml#TheBeginning
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  31. ^ Carter, Jennifer (1994). Crown and Gown: Illustrated History of the University of Aberdeen, 1495-1995. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press.
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  35. ^ "College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2007-08-20.
  36. ^ "University of Glasgow :: Faculty of Medicine :: 17th century". University of Glasgow.
  37. ^ "About Cardiff University > Milestones". Cardiff University. Retrieved 2007-08-20.
  38. ^ "School of Medicine, Swansea". School of Medicine, Swansea. Retrieved 2007-08-20.
  39. ^ "Queen's University Belfast > About Us". Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 2007-08-20.

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