| Type | Medical school |
|---|---|
| Established | 1746 (Middlesex Hospital Medical School) 1834 (University College Hospital Medical School) 1874 (London School of Medicine for Women, later The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine) 1987 (University College and Middlesex School of Medicine) 1998 (Royal Free and University College Medical School) 2008 (renamed UCL Medical School) |
| Dean | Professor Mark Emberton |
| Director | Professor Faye Gishen |
| Location | London, England |
| Website | www |
UCL Medical School is the medical school of University College London (UCL) and is located in London, United Kingdom. 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 is currently ranked 6th in the world by the QS World University Rankings for Medicine 2024.
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 and 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.