School of Medicine and Medical Science (University College Dublin)
The UCD School of Medicine at University College Dublin, Ireland, was founded in 1855. Graduates include the current head of school, outgoing dean and the president of the University College Dublin.
The school offers five programmes; Medicine MB BCh BAO, BSc Physiology, BSc Biomedical Health and Life Sciences and the BSc Radiography.
UCDs degree in Radiography is the oldest in Europe with the first graduates being conferred in 1994. It is the only Diagnostic Imaging Programme in the Republic of Ireland.
The School has opened a purpose-built building on the Belfield campus, the heart of the university. It is close to the Conway Institute, Ireland's Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases, and the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology.
Undergraduate entry medical students study a three-year pre-clinical programme and then study two final years in the affiliated teaching hospitals, either St. Vincent’s University Hospital or the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. Graduate entry medical students study a 2-year-pre-clinical programme and study the final two years in the affiliated hospitals. Upon graduation students are awarded bachelor's degrees in medicine, surgery and obstetrics.
The medical school has a twinning medical programme with the Penang Medical College. There is also a small group of North American students entering each year.
In September 2005 there was a restructuring of the medical programme in the systems-based model, as part of a university wide implementation.
