Type | Medical school |
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Established |
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Dean | Mark Emberton |
Director | Faye Gishen |
Location | London, England |
Affiliations | University College London |
Website | www |
UCL Medical School is the medical school of University College London (UCL), a public research university in London, England. The school provides a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education programmes and also has a medical education research unit and an education consultancy unit. It is internationally renowned and as of 2024[update] is ranked 6th in the world for medicine by the QS World University Rankings.
UCL has offered education in medicine since 1834. The currently configured and titled medical school was established in 2008 following mergers between UCLH Medical School, the medical school of the Middlesex Hospital (in 1987), and the Royal Free Hospital Medical School (in 1998). The school's clinical teaching is primarily conducted at University College Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, and the Whittington Hospital, with other associated teaching hospitals including the Great Ormond Street Hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital, the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Luton and Dunstable University Hospital.