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Ysgol Feddygaeth Prifysgol Caerdydd | |
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| Type | Medical school |
| Established | 1893; 132 years ago (1893) |
| Dean | Acting Head Professor Rachel Errington |
Academic staff | 638 |
| Undergraduates | 1000 |
| Postgraduates | 1100 |
| Location | , |
| Affiliations | Cardiff University |
| Website | medicine |
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TheCardiff University School of Medicine (Welsh:Ysgol Feddygaeth Prifysgol Caerdydd) is themedical school ofCardiff University and is located inCardiff,Wales, UK. Founded in 1893 as part of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, it is the oldest of the three medical schools in Wales.
It is one of the largest medical schools in the United Kingdom, employing nearly 600 academic and 450 support staff; and with over 1000 undergraduate and 1100 postgraduate students enrolled on medical and scientific courses. The school has an annual financial turnover of over £50 million, of which nearly half comes from competitive external research funding. The school is based at theUniversity Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in teaching and research across the Centre for Medical Education and divisions such as Cancer and Genetics, Infection and Immunity, Population Medicine, and Psychological Medicine & Clinical Neurosciences.
The medical school was founded asCardiff Medical School in 1893 when the Departments ofAnatomy,Physiology andPharmacology were established atUniversity College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (now Cardiff University). Much of the initial funding came from the donations ofSir William James Thomas, 1st Baronet.[1]
The opening ceremony took place on 14 February 1894 at the college buildings on Dumfries Place and was conducted byJohn Viriamu Jones, Principal of the college, andRichard Quain, President of theGeneral Medical Council. During the ceremony professors of the new medical school encouraged it to emulate the recent advances in medical education at theUniversity of Heidelberg.[2] The first Dean of the school wasAlfred W. Hughes ofCorris.[3]
A department ofPathology andBacteriology was added in 1910. Students finishing their preclinical studies at Cardiff went on to other medical schools for their clinical studies, many going toUniversity College Hospital inLondon, part ofUniversity College London.[citation needed]
In 1921 it became a clinical and pre-clinical medical school with the name of theWelsh National School of Medicine, and in 1931 it became an independent institution of theUniversity of Wales. The name was further changed in 1984, toUniversity of Wales College of Medicine.[4]
In 2002, ideas were floated to re-merge Cardiff with the University of Wales College of Medicine (UWCM) following the publication of theWelsh Assembly Government's review of higher education in Wales. This merger became effective on 1 August 2004, on which date Cardiff University ceased to be a constituent institution of the University of Wales and became an independent "link institution" affiliated to the federal University. The process of the merger was completed on 1 December 2004 when theAct of Parliament transferring UWCM's assets to Cardiff University received Royal Assent. On 17 December it was announced that thePrivy Council had given approval to the new Supplemental Charter and had granted university status to Cardiff, legally changing the name of the institution to Cardiff University. Cardiff awarded University of Wales degrees to students admitted before 2005, but these have been replaced by Cardiff degrees. Medicine, dentistry and other health-related areas began to admit students for Cardiff degrees in 2006.[citation needed]
In 2004, Cardiff University and theSwansea University entered a partnership to provide a four-year graduate-entry medical degree. An annual intake of around 70 post-graduate students undertook an accelerated version of the Cardiff course at the Swansea University for the first two years before joining undergraduate students at Cardiff for the final two years. However, from September 2010 Swansea University began independently providing medical education in a revised 4-yr Graduate Entry Degree.[citation needed]
In 2005, The Wales College of Medicine, which is part of the university, launched the North Wales Clinical School inWrexham in collaboration with theNorth East Wales Institute of Higher Education in Wrexham andBangor University, previously University of Wales, Bangor, and with theNational Health Service in Wales. This has been funded with £12.5 million from theWelsh Assembly[5] and will lead to the trebling of the number of trainee doctors in clinical training in Wales over a four-year period.[citation needed]
By 2008 the medical school it had an intake of some 305 British medical students per year and an additional 25 students from overseas.[6] This is based on a total number of students interviewing being around 1000-1500 and a total number of applications around 3100.[citation needed]
In November 2011 Cardiff University's School of Medicine officially opened the Cochrane Building, a health education centre offering students the latest teaching, library and simulation facilities. The centre's facilities include a Clinical Skills Centre, a high-technology medical simulation centre and a new library. The Cochrane Building provides teaching and learning facilities for all healthcare schools based on the Heath Park Campus and is named after the university's medical pioneer,Archie Cochrane.[7]
In 2012, Cardiff University's School of Medicine and 'Meducation' hosted the Wales Medical Undergraduate Conference, the first national undergraduate medical conference held in Wales,[8] with over 100 posters, and 15 oral presentations taking place[9] and attendees from throughout Europe.[10]
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The school's offers anMBBCh in Medicine course and clinical placements occurs in partnership with over a dozen NHS Trusts and over 150 general practices, covering the whole of Wales.[citation needed]
C21 Curriculum
In 2013, Cardiff School of Medicine launched a major redevelopment of its undergraduate medical education programme. C21 resulted from a comprehensive review of the undergraduate curriculum, its delivery and the supporting structures, mechanisms and processes and improve the quality of the medical education delivered at Cardiff University.Led by the Division of Medical Education, and in partnership with colleagues from across the university, student and patient representatives, the NHS and Welsh Assembly Government, C21 consisted of 5 coordinated projects.[citation needed]
Intercalated programmes
Some undergraduate students have the opportunity to undertake an intercalated year between Year 3 and Year 4, or between Year 4 and Year 5, of the course.[11] These years can be undertaken in any other higher education institute outside of Cardiff Medical School.[citation needed]
In 2016–17, a total of 294 medical students enrolled at Cardiff Medical School, including 74 from Wales.[12] For 2024, 270 places will be offered to home or EU students and 25 from overseas for the five year undergraduate medicine course. 10 places will be offered for the four year graduate course from a recognised feeder course; Medical Pharmacology; Biomedical Science (Cardiff University) and Medical Sciences (Bangor University or University of South Wales). Applicants for this course can apply to join Year Two of the A100 five-year programme.[13]
The school offers an undergraduate Medical Pharmacology (BSc) course.[citation needed]
Post-graduate taught (PGT) schemes
A wide range of post-graduate taught (PGT) schemes is also offered. The school is the largest provider of medically related PGT courses in the UK. These include both conventional and distance learning courses. Many courses are aimed specifically at qualified doctors and health care professionals, such as the Diploma in Practical Dermatology and the MSc in psychiatry.[citation needed]
Across the school, five institutes lead research that covers a spectrum from basic laboratory science to bedside practice. These are the Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, the Institute of Infection & Immunity, the Institute of Primary Care & Public Health, the Institute of Cancer & Genetics, and the Institute of Molecular & Experimental Medicine.Alongside these research Institutes, core functions of the school are provided by the Institute of Medical Education and the Institute of Translation, Innovation, Methodology & Engagement (TIME).[citation needed]
Research facilities have recently been enhanced with the £11m Henry Wellcome Building for Biomedical Research inWales. The building includes 4500 square metres of laboratories and equipment for research into Infection & Immunity,CancerBiology and Psychiatric Genetics, adjacent to a purpose-built Clinical Research Facility. The Henry Wellcome Building is the largest development of its kind ever undertaken in Wales.[citation needed]
Notable recent successes include the establishment of aMedical Research Council-funded translational research collaboration withBristol University (called SARTRE), and the award of an MRC Centre in Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics– the first MRC Centre in Wales and the first aimed specifically at harnessing the genetics revolution for research in mental disorders.[citation needed]
The school also houses the Institute of Medical Genetics, winner of a 2007 Queen's Anniversary Prize.[14]
Cardiff University medical students are able to join both all the Cardiff University clubs and societies, and also clubs and societies run specifically for students studying medicine, and in some cases other healthcare sciences. These clubs and societies are run by Cardiff Medsoc which is theMedsoc withinCardiff University Students' Union.[15][16]
There are many distinguished alumni of the Cardiff University School of Medicine. These include;[citation needed]
Alumni have also gone onto success in professional sports, such asWales internationalrugby union playersJamie Roberts,Hallam Amos, andGwyn Jones (the latter captained Wales whilst at medical school).
Cardiff has two Nobel Laureates on its staff, SirMartin Evans andRobert Huber. A number of Cardiff University staff have been elected asFellows of the Royal Society, these includeGraham Hutchings, professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Cardiff Catalysis Institute, School of Chemistry andOle Holger Petersen, director of Cardiff School of Biosciences. Medical graduate, ProfessorAzeem Majeed, is Head of the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London.
In August 2009, theGeneral Medical Council asked the School of Medicine to carry out a full investigation after serious errors were made in the qualifying Final MB Examination. One student, who was told he/she had failed was found to have passed after an appeal. The appeals process revealed that 4 students had been told they had passed the examination but, in fact, had failed. The 4 had already gone through the graduation process and had been registered as doctors by the General Medical Council. They were subsequently suspended from practice. This was said to be due to a "clerical error".[17]
Following allegations of research misconduct in 2012, a formal investigation was launched into the laboratory of the dean of medicine, Paul Morgan.[18][19] The formal investigation panel, after a six-month investigation, cleared the dean and his colleagues of the charges, though four allegations of image manipulation against a former member of staff were upheld.[20] Two retractions were published on 7 November 2013 in the journal "Cancer Research".[21][22] A retraction of another paper was published in theJournal of Immunology in 2011.[23] A 2014 retraction, the 4th, has been published in the journalMolecular Immunology.[24]
In June 2016, a complaint was received by the School of Medicine regarding a studentcomedy revue, entitledAnaphylaxis. An investigation was carried out by the former President of theRoyal College of Psychiatrists,Dinesh Bhugra, and subsequently reported that a number of students had been involved in an impersonation of a lecturer at the school through 'Black face', which was both racist and homophobic in nature. The associated Wales Deanery and Health Education Improvement Wales have been criticised by the Welsh Assembly Government for being institutionally, organisationally and structurally racist with practices that hinder the professional development of doctors and dentists from black and ethnic minority groups.[25][26]
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