Keele University Medical School
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{{Infobox University
|name =Keele University Medical School
|image =[[Image:Keelelog.gif|150px|The logo of Keele University]]
|motto =
|established =1978
|type =[[Medical school]]
|staff =80
|dean =[[Richards Hays|Richard Hays]]
|students =400
|undergrad =
|postgrad =
|city =[[Keele]], [[Stoke-on-Trent]] & [[Shrewsbury]]
|country =[[England]]
|affiliations =[[Keele University]]
|website =http://www.keele.ac.uk/medicine
}}
'''Keele University Medical School''' is the [[Medical school (United Kingdom)|medical school]] of [[Keele University]], [[Staffordshire]], [[England]]. The pre-clinical course is taught on the [[Keele University]] campus in [[Newcastle-under-Lyme]] and the clinical course is mainly taught within the [[University Hospital of North Staffordshire]] in [[Stoke-on-Trent]], and at the [[Royal Shrewsbury Hospital]], [[Shrewsbury]]. Medical students are also attached to District General hospitals in [[Stafford]], [[Shrewsbury]] and [[Telford]], as well as general practices in [[Stoke-on-Trent]] and the surrounding area. The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in [[Shrewsbury]] became an associated teaching hospital in 2007.
==History==
The Royal Commission on Medical Education (1965-68) issued its report (popularly known as the ''Todd Report'') in 1968 on the state of medical education in the United Kingdom. The Commission estimated that by 1994 there would be a need to train more than 4500 doctors a year for the United Kingdom, 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. It recommended that new medical schools should be immediately established at the Universities of [[University of Nottingham|Nottingham]], [[University of Southampton|Southampton]] and [[University of Leicester|Leicester]], but that this would still not produce enough doctors. It considered the possibility of medical schools being established at Keele University, [[University of Hull|Hull University]], [[University of Warwick|Warwick University]] and [[Swansea University|University College, Swansea]] (now ''University of Wales Swansea''). It was generally considered that North Staffordshire would be a very good site for a new medical school, having a large local population and several large hospitals. However, it was considered that a minimum intake of 150 students a year would be necessary to make the medical school economically and educationally viable, and it was considered that [[Keele University]] was at that time too small an institution to be able to support a medical school of this size. However, it was recommended that the hospital rebuilding programme, which was going on at that time, should take into account the possible future establishment of a medical school in North Staffordshire, and the Commission envisaged that a medical school would be established at Keele University sometime between 1975 and 1990.
In 1978, [[Keele University|Keele]] Department of Postgraduate Medicine opened. This department conducted [[medical research]], and played a part in postgraduate medical education, but did not teach [[Medical school (United Kingdom)|undergraduate medical students]].
In 2002, over 30 years after the publication of the Todd Report, the current medical school was founded, teaching [[Medical school (United Kingdom)|clinical undergraduate medicine]] to clinical medical students who had completed their pre-clinical medical education at either [[Manchester Medical School]] ([[University of Manchester]]) or the [[St Andrews Medical School|Bute Medical School]] ([[University of St Andrews]]). These students followed the curriculum of the [[Manchester Medical School]] clinical course, and after three years of clinical study at Keele University Medical School, were awarded the degrees of [[Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery|M.B, Ch.B.]] by The [[University of Manchester]].
In 2003, Keele University Medical School started teaching the "pre-clinical" part of the medical course (years 1 and 2), using the Manchester curriculum. Therefore, both pre-clinical and clinical medical education is now being undertaken in North Staffordshire, and the [[Royal Shrewsbury Hospital]] joined Keele as an associated teaching hospital in [[2007]].
Keele is now in the process of forming its own undergraduate medical curriculum. Implementation of this (expected around 2007) will liberate the medical school from [[Manchester University]]. Graduates will then receive a medical degree from [[Keele University]].
Keele University Medical School continued to take clinical students who had completed their pre-clinical medical education at [[Manchester Medical School]] ([[University of Manchester]]} or the [[St Andrews Medical School|Bute Medical School]] ([[University of St Andrews]]) until recently. The final group of students from mixed pre-clinical backgrounds started year 3 of the course in 2005.
The first cohort students completing their clinical studies at Keele did so in 2005. As of 2006 applicants will be required to sit the UKCAT admission test. Information about the test and preparation can be found at [http://www.ukcat.ac.uk/ UKCAT]
==Keele University Medical School today==
Pre-clinical teaching (years 1-2) takes place on [[Keele University]] campus, whilst clinical teaching (years 3-5) takes place in the [[University Hospital of North Staffordshire]] site, in Hartshill. Teaching at Keele also involves attachments at District General hospitals in [[Stafford]], [[Shrewsbury]] and [[Telford]], as well as GP attachments in [[Stoke-on-Trent]] and the surrounding area.
Keele medical students formed the [[Keele Medics Society]] (KMS) in 2005. This organisation aims to represent students and promote social inclusion.
[http://www.keelemedics.co.uk Keele Medics Society]
==See also==
* [[Medical education in the United Kingdom]]
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