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UCLMS Medical Education Conference - Transitions in Medical Education

May 07, 2013 09:15AM

Booking has now opened for our third Medical Education Conference on the 12th June 2013!

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UCLMS Seminar: 'Practicing professionalism in an age of digital social networking': exploring the digital divide

Mar 22, 2013 12:18PM

Dr Scott Rice – Practicing professionalism in an age of digital social networking:  exploring the digital divide

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UCL Medical School Hubs

Mar 22, 2013 12:17PM

We’re very pleased to announce that the first stage of a major estates upgrade for UCL Medical School is now underway.   The upgrade is designed to develop Student HUBS and enhanced teaching space at each of our 3 main campuses.   Plans and progress will be published on the UCLMS website as the projects develop at each site.

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NHS Change Day: do something better together

Feb 15, 2013 16:54PM

NHS Change Day will take place on 13.03.13.  It will be one day during which the collective energy, creativity and ideas of thousands of NHS staff, and those who support the NHS, in all areas of work and right across the country, will demonstrate how one simple action or new idea can make a difference and improve care for patients, their families and their carers. The team behind NHS Change Day are asking people to make pledges of an action or idea.  You can see our pledge on the NHS Change Day pledge wall .

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Speak Up! The 2013 National Student Survey seeks your views

Feb 12, 2013 10:26AM

Speak up!

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History of UCL Medical School

UCL Medical School

UCL Medical School has emerged from the amalgamation of a number of prestigious institutions over a period of some years. These are the medical schools of the Middlesex Hospital, University College Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital. These organisations combine a rich past in the history of science and medicine with advanced clinical practice. Associated with the Medical School are several world-famous medical institutions which are now Institutes in the School of Life and Medical Sciences. Staff from these Institutes design and deliver the MBBS programme together with colleagues from UCL Faculty of Life Sciences.

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  • University College Hospital Medical School merged with the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1987 and the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in 1998
  • The Middlesex Hospital started training doctors in 1746
  • University College Hospital opened in 1834 and was the only one in London to be built to provide a university faculty with a hospital for teaching purposes
  • The Royal Free was the first medical school to admit women students
  • Associated with the Medical School are numerous world famous clinical and research institutions, including the Institute of Child Health (Great Ormond Street), the Institute of Neurology (The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery), the Ear Institute (The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital) and the Institute of Ophthalmology (Moorfields Eye Hospital).

UCL

  • is the oldest and largest College of the University of London
  • was founded in 1828 with Medicine as one of its foundation faculties
  • was the first to admit women on equal terms with men
  • is a truly multi-faculty university, teaching diverse subjects from Fine Art at the Slade School through Architecture and Egyptology to Neuroscience and Medicine
  • is one of the world’s very best universities, and isconsistently placed in the global 25 in a wide range of world rankings
  • has a distinguished cadre of academic staff including34 fellows of the Royal Society; former students/staff have included 21 Nobel Prize winners, 6 from Physiology and Medicine, including Huxley, Hill and Katz.
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