As Ireland’s largest medical school, the UCD School of Medicine & Medical Science offers undergraduate degree programmes in Medicine (direct entry and graduate entry), Physiology, Radiography and Biomedical Health & Life Sciences.
The School has over twenty graduate taught programmes ranging from certificate to masters degree awards and a further twenty graduate research programmes at masters or doctoral level with over 400 graduate students. Our portfolio of biomedical, clinical and translational research has over 75 principal investigators, 50 post-doctoral scientists and 250 doctoral students with grants under management worth approximately €35 million.
Together with Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and St Vincent’s Healthcare Group, the School has established Ireland's first academic health centre, Dublin Academic Medical Centre. Our clinical training programmes are delivered at six major Dublin teaching hospitals and across the country through sixteen affiliated acute, general or specialist hospitals.The School also has a nationwide primary care clinical training network comprising over 150 general practitioners.
With over 1,500 undergraduate and graduate students, the UCD School of Medicine & Medical Science is Ireland's largest medical school and is first choice for medicine among Irish students. The School offers both direct school leaver entry and graduate entry to four, five and six year medicine programmes and provides Ireland’s only undergraduate training in diagnostic imaging through a four year Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Radiography. The School also offers a highly competitive four year B.Sc in Biomedical Health & Life Science which provides a thorough understanding of disease aetiology and pathogenesis and provides graduates with advanced biomedical research expertise. School staff also contribute to many UCD Science degree programmes including physiology, pharmacology, and neuroscience.
The School has a complement of over 165 academic staff, 230 funded research investigators and, with the creation in 2007 of Dublin Academic Medical Centre, an adjunct faculty comprising some 350 hospital consultants and over 300 junior doctors in training.Our clinical training programmes are delivered at six major Dublin teaching hospitals and across the country through sixteen affiliated acute, general or specialist hospitals. The School also has a nationwide primary care clinical training network comprising over 150 general practitioners. Many of our hospital partners are recognised as regional and national centres of excellence for the treatment of specific diseases. Hence our students have access to best healthcare practitioners and are exposed to the practice of medicine in a variety of clinical settings.
With over 1,500 students, the School has a large and ethnically diverse student body comprising school leavers, graduates and healthcare professionals within 45 undergraduate, graduate taught or graduate research programmes. The School also has a large number of occasional students as our programmes support continuous professional development of doctors, radiographers, paramedics, and scientists within generalist and specialist medicine careeers. Although our students come from primarily three continents (Europe, South Asia and North America), there are in excess of 25 different nationalities represented in our current student cohort. Students are enthusiastic participants of University life and they continue to maintain a healthy work/life balance whilst undergoing specialist training at our clinical sites.
The UCD School of Medicine and Medical Sciences is committed to research that enhances our understanding disease with the ultimate aim of improving human health.It has over 75 principal research investigators with research grants under management to the value of approximately €35 million and annual research income of over €7.5 million.
Our research is focussed on key thematic areas of Inflammation and Infection, Vascular biology and Diabetes using many approaches including cellular and molecular biology, bioinformatics and proteomics, through whole organism disease models to patient–based clinical and population studies. This multidisciplinary strength provides a stimulating environment in which scientists and clinicians can interact in relevant translational research.
The School is a principal stakeholder in Ireland's premier biomedical research institute, the UCDConway Institute for Biomolecular & Biomedical Research which is focused on developing a better understanding of the causes of disease, simpler and more reliable diagnostic tests, and more effective treatments.The School has built dedicated state-of-the-art clinical research units on several hospital sites to provide an integrated infrastructure for clinical and translational research. This clinical research centre supports approximately 50 clinical trial, biocollection or observational studies annually with over 5,000 patient contacts.
Our large and experienced academic faculty, innovative programmes and state-of-the-art facilities provide a stimulating education and research environment for students. These academic activities aim to improve patient healthcare by purposefully linking treatment, teaching and research capability.
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