Leicester Medical School is a medical school

Medical school (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, medical school generally refers to a department within a university which is involved in the education of future medical practitioners...

 in England establish in 1975.

Part of the University of Leicester

University of Leicester

The University of Leicester is a research-led university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is a mile south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park and Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College....

, the medical school offers five-year and four-year (graduate entry) courses in medicine, awarding its graduates the MBChB degree. About 80 per cent of students on the five year course choose to take an intercalated BSc Honours Degree, usually between their third and fourth years of study, and which is awarded following either a year of full time research or completing the final year of a standard degree course (e.g. medical genetics, physiology, French). As of 2010 the medical school admits 175 British students per year includes 20 students from overseas.

Leicester was ranked 7th in the top 31 medical schools in the 2010 Guardian University Guide and 7th in the Times ranking table.

History

The school was formed following the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Medical Education (1965-68) (which issued its report, popularly known as the "Todd Report" in 1968). The Commission estimated that by 1994 the UK would need to train more than 4500 doctors a year, and that this would need to be achieved by both increasing the numbers of medical students at existing medical schools, and by establishing a number of new medical schools. The report recommended that new medical schools should be immediately established at the Universities of Nottingham

University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

, Southampton

University of Southampton

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 and Leicester.

In 2000, Leicester Medical School assisted the University of Warwick

University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...

 in the foundation of the Leicester-Warwick Medical School, combining Leicester's own school with a new institution based in Warwick

Warwick

Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England. The town lies upon the River Avon, south of Coventry and just west of Leamington Spa and Whitnash with which it is conjoined. As of the 2001 United Kingdom census, it had a population of 23,350...

. The project was successful, and in 2006, some time after the Warwick school's first students had graduated, the two institutions separated, creating Warwick Medical School

Warwick Medical School

The school was opened in 2000 and is as part of the University of Warwick. Originally linked with Leicester Medical School, Warwick Medical School was granted independent degree-awarding status by the Privy Council on the recommendation of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom...

, and recreating Leicester Medical School. Warwick is currently the only medical school in the UK which restricts entry to graduate students.