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Leeds School of Medicine

The School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Leeds, in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The School of Medicine was founded in 1831.

Type

Medical School

1831

University of Leeds

Professor Mark Kearney

Leeds
,
England

53°48′04″N 1°33′07″W / 53.801°N 1.552°W / 53.801; -1.552

medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/medicine

The School of Medicine now forms part of the University's Faculty of Medicine and Health. The School is composed of institutes located at multiple sites in West Yorkshire including the Worsley Building, LIGHT, St James's Campus, and Chapel Allerton Hospital. The School of Medicine is primarily linked with two major hospitals for clinical teaching: the Leeds General Infirmary and St James's University Hospital, both run by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, alongside smaller district NHS Trusts.

Dr James Williamson

Dr Adam Hunter

Mr Samuel Smith

Mr III

William Hey

Mr Thomas Pridgin Teale

Dr Joseph Prince Garlick

On 6 June 1831 six physicians and surgeons set up the Leeds Medical School with the aim:


The Medical School admitted its first students in October of that year. It was one of ten provincial medical schools founded in the ten years between 1824 and 1834.


The founders were:


The first premises were the Leeds Public Dispensary on North Street in the town but in 1834 the school was moved to new premises at 1 East Parade. In the 1940s, the "Leeds Public Dispensary and Hospital" is recorded as sponsoring pharmaceutical research undertaken by the University of Leeds.[1] The Medical School's current premises, the Worsley Building, was designed by the Building Design Partnership[2] and officially opened by the Duke of Kent in March 1979.[3]

Teaching[edit]

The medical training in Leeds lasts five years. An optional intercalated degree can be taken either at Leeds or another institution, making the course six years. The MBChB degree is divided into three phases. Phase I (Preparing for Clinical Practice) encompasses Years One to Three, Phase II (Clinical Practice in Context) encompasses Year Four and Phase III (Becoming a Doctor) encompasses Year Five and Foundation Year One. Leeds was ranked 19th in the Guardian medicine league table 2017[4] and 3rd for student experience in the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2018.[5]

LIME – Leeds Institute of Medical Education – Responsible for the administration and delivery of the School of Medicine's programme.

MBChB

LIHS – Leeds Institute of Health Sciences – Includes the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development

LICAMM – Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine

LIMR – Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's – based at

St James's University Hospital

LIRMM – Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine – based at

Chapel Allerton Hospital

The School of Medicine is split up into five institutes::

Intercalating[edit]

Every year around half of all Leeds students take a year out to study another related degree (BSc) in a process called intercalating. Many medical/veterinary/dental students from other universities also come to Leeds to study. The intercalated degrees on offer include: Primary care, International Health, Medical Physics, Human Physiology, Sports Science, Neuroscience, Zoology, Pharmacology, Medical Ethics, Clinical Science, Psychology, Microbiology and Anatomy.

– Executive editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ).[6]

Kamran Abbasi

– Surgeon and naturalist.[7]

Henry Bendelack Hewetson

– Professor of Psychiatry

Anne Farmer

Josep Figueras

– Medical doctor and public health specialist.

Dr Rubina Gillani

Professor – British health administrator and academic.[8]

Gillian Leng

– Adventurer, sailor and doctor. Graduated from University of Leeds in 1942 and as a GP supported the establishment of the NHS.[9]

David Henry Lewis

psychiatrist and geneticist

Peter McGuffin

– Executive Medical Director

Hugo Mascie-Taylor

– Noted British abdominal surgeon.[10]

Berkeley Moynihan

– British general practitioner and epidemiologist.[11]

William Pickles

– Pioneer and worldwide leading figure in the field of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition.[12]

Professor Margot Shiner

– General Practitioner convicted of murdering 15 of his patients; later Police found evidence that the total was closer to 250.[13]

Harold Shipman

Paul Workman (scientist)

– Paediatrician and expert on child abuse.[14]

Jane Wynne

– Paediatric surgeon.[15]

Robert Zachary

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Leeds School of Medicine

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