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Former names | Bute Medical School | |||||||||||||||||
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| Type | Medical school | |||||||||||||||||
| Established | 1413 | |||||||||||||||||
Parent institution | University of St Andrews | |||||||||||||||||
| Dean | David Crossman | |||||||||||||||||
Administrative staff | 54 | |||||||||||||||||
| Students | 464[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Location | , , 56°20′17″N 2°47′38″W / 56.338°N 2.794°W | |||||||||||||||||
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| Website | medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk |
The University of St Andrews School of Medicine (formerly the Bute Medical School) is the school of medicine at the University of St Andrews in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and the oldest medical school in Scotland.
The medical school offers several programmes to students, the BSc (Hons) in Medicine program teaches medical students for the first three years of their training, with students completing this training, earning their MB ChB/MBBS at various partner medical schools in the UK in a pre-arranged fashion. From September 2025 onwards, a 5-year MB ChB will be offered with a particular focus on community healthcare. The school also offers a 4-year graduate entry medical program in combination with the University of Dundee, awarding a joint MB ChB from the University of St Andrews and Dundee.[2]
The school is associated with 1 Nobel Prize and 2 Victoria Cross winners. Famous alumni include small pox vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner, revolutionary journalist Jean-Paul Marat, and inventor of beta blockers and H2 receptor antagonists, Nobel Prize in Medicine winner Sir James Black.
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