Medicine

Why study Medicine at Dundee?

In Dundee you have the opportunity to study medicine in a fully integrated medical school and hospital with extensive teaching and research facilities, which serve both teaching and clinical needs. Ninewells Hospital and Medical School is the centre of many areas of pioneering research in cancer, keyhole surgery, heart disease, drug development, and medical education.

You will be part of a caring community providing healthcare for Tayside, Fife, and further afield, and have access to a wide range of facilities including lecture theatres, teaching laboratories, library, integrated self-teaching area, computer suite and a leading Clinical Skills Centre. A new education facility is being built on the Ninewells Hospital site which will further enhance the quality of our teaching.

What our students say

Shona McDonald is a 1st Year Medical Student
"The best thing about my course is the varied way in which you are taught and the fact that the staff value your feedback. Each year the course is updated and improved based on comments from previous students".

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Professional accreditation

This programme is fully accredited by the professional governing body for medicine in the UK, the General Medical Council (GMC).

What's so good about Medicine at Dundee?

In the 2010 National Student Survey we were ranked 2nd in Scotland and 4th in the UK, and 94% of our students said they were satisfied with the quality of the course.

Elective study

In your final year you have the opportunity to travel anywhere in the world to undertake a period of elective study.

Gordon Hale, 5th Year Medical Student says "The best experience so far has to have been my elective, the chance that every medical student has between 4th and 5th year to travel abroad and experience medicine in another country for 6 weeks. I chose to travel to Grenada in the West Indies and had a fantastic time".

• Students who have done well at school and are committed to medicine.
• Individuals with other broader interests demonstrating leadership, organisational and communication skills.
• Post-school students and graduates, for whom a number of places are allocated.

Interviews in Asia

Short listed applicants can choose to be interviewed in Dundee or Kuala Lumpur.

Widening Access Premedical Option

In 2010 Dundee medical school allocated up to 6 places within the premedical year for local applicants (Tayside and Fife) with proven evidence of adverse circumstances leading to significant educational disadvantage.

Premedical Year for Non-science background

• Very able applicants who have a predominantly non-Science background (i.e. those who have not studied either Higher or A-Level Chemistry) will be considered for the pre-medicine year.
• Passing with satisfactory grade average guarantees your entry into the medical course itself.

• MBChB Medicine
• MBChB Medicine Premedical Year Entry