, mottoeng = Temper the bitter things in life with a smile
, parent =
Queen Mary University of London
, mottoeng = With united powers
, established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College
, type = Public researc ...
, president =
Lord Mayor of London
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, head_label =
Warden
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''Warden'' is etymologically identic ...
, head =
Mark Caulfield
, students = 3,410
, undergrad = 2,235
, postgrad = 1,175
, location =
London
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, England
, affiliations =
United Hospitals
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, colours =
, website =
, logo =
Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, commonly known as Barts or BL, is a
medical
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practic ...
and
dental school
A dental school (school of dental medicine, school of dentistry, dental college) is a tertiary educational institution—or part of such an institution—that teaches dental medicine to prospective dentists and potentially other dental auxiliaries ...
in
London
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, England. The school is part of
Queen Mary University of London
, mottoeng = With united powers
, established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College
, type = Public researc ...
, a constituent college of the federal
University of London
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, and the
United Hospitals
United Hospitals is the historical collective name of the medical schools of London. They are all part of the University of London (UL) with the exception of Imperial College School of Medicine which left in 2007. The original United Hospitals ref ...
.
It was formed in 1995 by the merger of the London Hospital Medical College (the first school to be granted an official charter for medical teaching in 1785) and the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital (the oldest remaining hospital in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1123, with medical teaching beginning from that date).
The school has multiple sites, having a presence at the site of both of the former colleges at and near their respective hospitals,
St Bartholomew's Hospital
St Bartholomew's Hospital, commonly known as Barts, is a teaching hospital located in the City of London. It was founded in 1123 and is currently run by Barts Health NHS Trust.
History
Early history
Barts was founded in 1123 by Rahere (die ...
(in
Smithfield in the
City of London
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and nearby in
Charterhouse Square
Charterhouse Square is a garden square, a pentagonal space, in Farringdon, in the London Borough of Islington, and close to the former Smithfield Meat Market. The square is the largest courtyard or yard associated with the London Charterhouse ...
), and the
Royal London Hospital
The Royal London Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is part of Barts Health NHS Trust. It provides district general hospital services for the City of London and Tower Hamlets and s ...
in
Whitechapel
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with an additional site at Queen Mary's main (
Mile End
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) campus, and a satellite campus on the island of
Gozo in
Malta
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.
As of 2018, the school had 2,235 undergraduate and 1,175 postgraduate students, for a total of 3,410 students.
History
London Hospital Medical College
The medical college at the
London Hospital
The Royal London Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is part of Barts Health NHS Trust. It provides district general hospital services for the City of London and Tower Hamlets and sp ...
, now known as The Royal London Hospital, opened in 1785. It was England's first purpose-built medical school, pioneering a new kind of medical education, with an emphasis on theoretical and clinical teaching. The teaching premises were expanded in 1854, when buildings in Turner Street were built and opened, which are still in use today. For many years it functioned as an unincorporated general medical school of the University of London, until it was incorporated as The London Hospital Medical College on 30 March 1949. A dental school also opened at the London Hospital in 1911, acquiring the new dental institute and expanding student numbers during the 1960s. Dental education developed during the 1970s, increasing collaboration between dentists and other professionals.
Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital
Records of students at
St Bartholomew's Hospital
St Bartholomew's Hospital, commonly known as Barts, is a teaching hospital located in the City of London. It was founded in 1123 and is currently run by Barts Health NHS Trust.
History
Early history
Barts was founded in 1123 by Rahere (die ...
date back to at least 1662, although a purpose-built lecture theatre at the hospital was not built until 1791, and it was not until that 1822 the governors formally approved the provision of medical education within the hospital. Later a residential college was established, which moved to premises at
Charterhouse Square
Charterhouse Square is a garden square, a pentagonal space, in Farringdon, in the London Borough of Islington, and close to the former Smithfield Meat Market. The square is the largest courtyard or yard associated with the London Charterhouse ...
in the 1930s. The medical college was formally established in 1843, and was incorporated as the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital on 26 July 1921.
Merger
Both colleges were admitted to the
University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
in 1900, and a close association between the two was developed following the Royal Commission on Medical Education in 1968, with new links with the then Queen Mary College being established at the same time. In 1989 the pre-clinical teaching at the two colleges was merged and sited in the Basic Medical Sciences Building at Queen Mary (where it stayed until 2005, when it was moved to the Blizard Building at the Whitechapel campus). The two colleges officially merged in 1995, along with Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, now known as
Queen Mary University of London
, mottoeng = With united powers
, established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College
, type = Public researc ...
, forming the combined entity known as Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
In 2016, the school reached an agreement with the government of
Malta
Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...
to open a satellite campus on the island of
Gozo, with a purpose-built medical school and anatomy centre to be built on the Gozo General Hospital campus. The first students were admitted in 2017, and the buildings were due to be completed in 2019.
In recent years,
Queen Mary University of London
, mottoeng = With united powers
, established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College
, type = Public researc ...
has attempted to remove aspects of the 'Barts and The London' name and identity from the School of Medicine and Dentistry. In 2019, QMUL changed the logo of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, to much resistance from staff and students of the medical and dental school. A petition was sent to the principal of the university,
Colin Bailey. This has become an ongoing issue, with Barts and The London Students' Association condemning the way the BL identity and community had been treated. Current students at Barts and The London, as well as alumni, are concerned that this line of change will lead to a complete eradication of the tradition and heritage of Barts and The London.
In 2022, students and alumni reacted with even more anger when University leadership attempted to drop the 'Barts and The London' name entirely and rebrand the School to 'Queen Mary University of London Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry'; QMUL responded by claiming that the change was necessary to ensure 'no possible confusion' in its own
brand identity
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.
Campus
The school is split over a total of five campuses, with the main ones based around the location of the former medical colleges and their respective hospitals. Most medical teaching takes place at the
Whitechapel
Whitechapel is a district in East London and the future administrative centre of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a part of the East End of London, east of Charing Cross. Part of the historic county of Middlesex, the area formed ...
campus, adjacent to The Royal London Hospital. The
Blizard Building
The Blizard Building is a building in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It houses the Blizard Institute, formerly known as the Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, part of Barts and The London School of Medicine and ...
, a purpose-built building housing research facilities and a lecture theatre was completed at the Whitechapel site in 2005, and is where most lectures take place. Most dental teaching takes place at the Royal London Dental Hospital, which opened in 2014, adjacent to the main hospital site.
Teaching, in particular clinical skills teaching, also takes place at the
West Smithfield campus, adjacent to St Bartholomew's Hospital, and the nearby
Charterhouse Square
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campus, which also houses student residences.
Some additional teaching, including anatomy and
dissection, takes place at the main QMUL campus in
Mile End
Mile End is a district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the East End of London, England, east-northeast of Charing Cross. Situated on the London-to-Colchester road, it was one of the earliest suburbs of London. It became part of the m ...
.
Hospitals
Medical students undertake clinical placements in the following hospitals, the majority of which are located in the
City of London
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and
East London, with a few in neighbouring
Essex
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:
London
*
Goodmayes Hospital
Goodmayes Hospital is a mental health facility in Goodmayes in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is managed by the North East London NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The site selected had previously been occupied by Blue House Farm. The hospital ...
(1901)
*
Homerton University Hospital
Homerton University Hospital is a teaching hospital in Homerton in the London Borough of Hackney. It is managed by Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The hospital has its origins in the Homerton Fever Hospital, which op ...
(1870)
*
King George Hospital (1910)
*
Mile End Hospital
Mile End Hospital is a community hospital in the Mile End area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in England. It is managed by Barts Health NHS Trust.
History
The hospital was established as the infirmary for the local workhouse in 1859. ...
(1859)
*
Moorfields Eye Hospital
Moorfields Eye Hospital is a specialist NHS eye hospital in Finsbury in the London Borough of Islington in London, England run by Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Together with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, which is adjacen ...
(1803)
*
Newham University Hospital
Newham University Hospital is an acute general hospital situated in Plaistow in the London Borough of Newham. It is managed by Barts Health NHS Trust.
History
The hospital was built to replace Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End in Stratfo ...
(1983)
*
Queen's Hospital Queens is a borough of New York City.
Queens or Queen's may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Queens (group), a Polish musical group
* "Queens" (Saara Aalto song), 2018
* ''Queens'' (novel), by Stephen Pickles, 1984
* "Queens", a song by ...
(2006)
*
Royal London Hospital
The Royal London Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is part of Barts Health NHS Trust. It provides district general hospital services for the City of London and Tower Hamlets and s ...
(1740)
*
St Bartholomew's Hospital
St Bartholomew's Hospital, commonly known as Barts, is a teaching hospital located in the City of London. It was founded in 1123 and is currently run by Barts Health NHS Trust.
History
Early history
Barts was founded in 1123 by Rahere (die ...
(1123)
*
Whipps Cross University Hospital
Whipps Cross University Hospital is a large university hospital in the locality of Whipps Cross in Leytonstone and is within Epping Forest in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, London, England. It is managed by Barts Health NHS Trust.
His ...
(1903)
Essex
*
Broomfield Hospital
Broomfield Hospital is an acute district general hospital in Chelmsford, Essex. It is managed by the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The hospital, originally known as Essex County Hospital, was designed as a hospital for the t ...
*
Colchester Hospital
Colchester Hospital is a district general hospital located in Colchester, Essex. It is managed by East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The hospital, then named Colchester District General Hospital, was opened by Queen Eliza ...
*
Princess Alexandra Hospital
*
Southend University Hospital
Southend University Hospital is an NHS hospital located in Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. It is managed by Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
History
In 1887, to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, a public fund was st ...
Academic profile
Teaching
A unique aspect of the Barts curriculum is the use of
problem-based learning
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogy in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem found in trigger material. The PBL process does not focus on problem solving with a defi ...
, which was first developed at
McMaster University Medical School
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in the 1960s. Barts uses this method as part of an integrated curriculum as opposed to one that is solely or predominately based on problem based learning. Students work in groups with a tutor on a clinical case or problem, and use problem based learning to supplement the knowledge they acquire during their lectures.
The standard undergraduate Medicine course is a 5-year course, which results in the award of an
MBBS degree. Students also have the option of extending their studies by a further year in order to study for an
intercalated BSc
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University ...
in a range of related subjects. This is usually done after the 2nd, 3rd or 4th year.
Students who already have a science or health-related degree and who wish to study Medicine can also choose to apply to the Graduate Entry Programme (GEP). This is a 4-year course, with the first two years of the standard undergraduate course being condensed into one. The remaining years of the course are identical to the undergraduate course.
Rankings
The medical school has scored highly in a number of independent rankings in recent years, placing it in the top 10 of medical schools in the United Kingdom:
* ranked 2nd by ''
The Guardian
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'' (2017)
* ranked 3rd by ''
The Times
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'' and ''
The Sunday Times
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'' (2017)
* ranked 7th by ''The Complete University Guide'' (2017)
* ranked 9th (51st–100th in the world) by the
QS World University Rankings
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(2016–17)
* ranked 10th (65th in the world) by the ''
Times Higher Education
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Ownership
TPG Capital acquired TSL Education ...
'' (2016–17)
* ranked 7th (28th in the world) by
CWTS Leiden Ranking
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(2016) based on the percentage of publications belonging to the top 10% of their field (PP top 10%)
The dental school has also been ranked highly:
* ranked 3rd by ''The Complete University Guide'' (2017)
* ranked 3rd by ''The Guardian'' (2017)
* ranked 4th by ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' (2017)
Admission
Admission to both the medical and dental schools is highly competitive.
Over 2,500 applications to study medicine are received by the school each year.
Of these, 800 candidates are interviewed and approximately 440 offers are made.
For dentistry, over 700 applications are received, of which 250 candidates are interviewed and approximately 150 offers are made.
The school accepts
A-levels
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, the
International Baccalaureate Diploma
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,
Irish Leaving Certificate
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,
Scottish Highers
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,
Cambridge Pre-U The Cambridge Pre-U is a school leaving qualification from Cambridge Assessment International Education that is an alternative to the current A Level qualification. It is principally aimed at students aged 16–19, and has recognition for university ...
and the
European Baccalaureate
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as entry qualifications. Both the medical and dental degrees are open to graduate students, with a minimum of a 2:1 required.
Applicants must sit the
UK Clinical Aptitude Test
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which is used alongside the
UCAS
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application to determine selection for interview.
The school also accepts medical students from the universities of
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a College town, university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cam ...
,
Oxford
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, the International Medical University Malaysia and
St Andrews aiming to complete a 3-year direct clinical entry programme. Students applying to this scheme do not need to apply by 15 October deadline and are not required to take the
UKCAT.
Research
The school serves a diverse population in
East London and the wider
Thames Gateway
Thames Gateway is a term applied to an area around the Thames Estuary in the context of discourse around regeneration and further urbanisation. The term was first coined by the UK government and applies to an area of land stretching east from ...
, with the differing demographics of East London in contrast to other areas of the country providing the school with a unique teaching opportunity. Consequently, many of the school's research efforts are focussed on conditions that are prevalent or endemic to the local area, for example,
diabetes
Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level ( hyperglycemia) over a prolonged period of time. Symptoms often include frequent urination, increased thirst and increased ...
,
hypertension,
heart disease,
tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, i ...
and other chronic
lung disease
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s, HIV, oral disease, and cancer.
The school has six research institutes:
* Barts Cancer Institute, which researches cancer and inflammation, experimental cancer medicine, haemato-oncology, cancer stem cells and ageing, molecular oncology and imaging and tumour biology.
The director is
Nick Lemoine.
*
Blizard Institute, which focuses on surgery, paediatrics, cutaneous, diabetes, gastroenterology, haematology, infectious diseases, neuroscience, pathology and health sciences.
* Institute of Dentistry, where research and teaching into adult oral health, oral growth and development, and clinical and diagnostic oral sciences occurs.
* Institute of Health Sciences Education, which is responsible for the teaching of pre-clinical medical sciences to medical students along with research in medical education and community based medical education.
* William Harvey Research Institute is a research facility focussing on biochemical pharmacology, orthopaedic diseases, endocrinology, genomics, clinical pharmacology and translational medicine and therapeutics.
* Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine researches preventive medicine, epidemiology, mathematics and statistics, psychology and psychiatry.
Students' Association
Barts and The London Students' Association (BLSA) is the students' union for the medical and dental school, a largely independent arm of
Queen Mary Students' Union (QMSU) formed when the student unions of St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School and the London Hospital Clubs Union merged with QMSU at the time their parent bodies merged in 1995. The Students' Association has a distinct structure and culture from that of QMSU, with its own clubs and societies for most sports and activities, competing in the National Association of Medics' Sports and
United Hospitals
United Hospitals is the historical collective name of the medical schools of London. They are all part of the University of London (UL) with the exception of Imperial College School of Medicine which left in 2007. The original United Hospitals ref ...
Competitions against other schools and universities. BLSA is led by a sabbatical student president.
Notable people
Notable staff
*
Stephanie Amiel – Diabetologists
*
William Baly
William Baly (1814 – 28 January 1861) was an English physician.
He was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk. After completing his medical studies at the Royal College of Surgeons and the Society of Apothecaries, he furthered his education in Paris ...
*
Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
*
Thomas Peel Dunhill
Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill (3 December 1876 – 22 December 1957) was an Australian thyroid surgeon and honorary surgeon to the monarchs of the United Kingdom.
A graduate of the University of Melbourne, where he earned his Bachelor of Medicine ...
– thyroid surgeon and Physician to the Queen of the United Kingdom
*
Edward Frankland
Sir Edward Frankland, (18 January 18259 August 1899) was an English chemist. He was one of the originators of organometallic chemistry and introduced the concept of combining power or valence. An expert in water quality and analysis, he was ...
– Chemist
*
Sir James Galloway – dermatologist
*
Samuel Gee
*
Ian Jacobs – gynaecological oncologist
*
Peter Kopelman
*
Irene Leigh – dermatologist
*
Henry Letheby
Henry Letheby (1816 – 28 March 1876) was an English analytical chemist and public health officer.
Early life
Letheby was born at Plymouth, England, in 1816, and studied chemistry at the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. In 1837 he commenc ...
– chemist and public health officer
*
Alexander George Ogston
Alexander George Ogston FAA FRS (30 January 1911 – 29 June 1996) was a British biochemist who specialised in the thermodynamics of biological systems. He was a grandson of Sir Alexander Ogston, a Scottish surgeon who discovered ''Staphylococ ...
– Biochemist
*
William Odling
William Odling, FRS (5 September 1829 in Southwark, London – 17 February 1921 in Oxford) was an English chemist who contributed to the development of the periodic table.
In the 1860s Odling, like many chemists, was working towards classifying ...
– Helped develop the periodic table
*
Dame Lesley Rees – Professor and Dean of Bart's Medical College
*
Joseph Rotblat
Sir Joseph Rotblat (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish and British physicist. During World War II he worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory on grounds of conscience after it became ...
– Nobel Prize winner
*
Wendy Savage
Wendy Diane Savage (born 12 April 1935 in Surrey) is a British gynaecologist, and advocate and campaigner of women's rights in childbirth and fertility.
Professor Savage read medicine at Girton College, Cambridge. She qualified in 1960, and was ...
– Gynaecologist
*
Denise Sheer – Geneticist
*
R.A. Shooter – Professor of Bacteriology and Dean of Bart's Medical College 1972–1981
*
Dorothy Stuart Russell – Professor of Morbid pathology
*
John Robert Vane
Sir John Robert Vane (29 March 1927 – 19 November 2004) was a British pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces pain-relief and anti-inflammatory effects and his work led to new treatments for heart and b ...
– Nobel Prize winner
Notable alumni
*
George F. Abercrombie – British GP, cofounder of the
Royal College of General Practitioners
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*
John Abernethy John Abernethy may refer to:
* John Abernethy (bishop), Scottish bishop, died 1639
* John Abernethy (judge) (born 1947), Australian judge
*John Abernethy (minister) (1680–1740), Presbyterian minister in Ireland
*John Abernethy (surgeon) (1764–18 ...
– Surgeon
*
Robert D. Acland – Surgeon, pioneer in plastic and reconstructive microsurgery
*
Joseph Adams – Surgeon and pathologist
*
Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison
Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, (19 June 1869 – 11 December 1951), was a British medical doctor and politician. A member of the Liberal and Labour parties, he served as Minister of Munitions during the First World War and was la ...
– Politician
*
George Augustus Auden – Professor of public health
*
John Badley – Surgeon
*
Edward Bancroft – Physician and double agent in the American Revolution
*
Gopal Baratham – Author and neurosurgeon
*
Gilbert Barling – Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham
*
Thomas John Barnardo
Thomas John Barnardo (4 July 184519 September 1905) was an Irish-born philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor and deprived children. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's home in 1867 to the date of Barnardo's death, ne ...
– Philanthropist
*
Frederick Batten – Neurologist and paediatrician
*
Hannah Billig – Famous wartime doctor
*
William Blizard
Sir William Blizard FRS FRSE PRCS FSA (1 March 1743 – 27 August 1835) was an English surgeon.
Life
He was born in Barn Elms, Surrey, the fourth child of auctioneer William Blizard. After an apprenticeship to a surgeon and apothecary in Mortl ...
– Surgeon
*
George Bodington
George Bodington (1799–1882) was a British general practitioner and pulmonary specialist.
Career
Born in Buckinghamshire and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, he served a surgical apprenticeship then studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital. ...
– Pulmonary specialist
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Robert Bridges
Robert Seymour Bridges (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was an English poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is ...
– Poet and holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913
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Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle OBE (2 April 1875 – 15 October 1941) was a pioneering anaesthetist best remembered for the development of early anaesthetic machines.
Early life
Born in Barbados, he was the only child of Henry Eudolphus Boyle, es ...
– Anaesthetist
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Alfred James Broomhall
Alfred James Broomhall (6 December 1911 – 11 May 1994), also A. J. Broomhall, was a British Protestant Christian medical missionary to China, and author and historian of the China Inland Mission (renamed as Overseas Missionary Fellowship in ...
– Medical missionary
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George Busk – Surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist
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William Carr – Former director of the Royal Australian Navy's Naval Medical Services
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Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British actor, comedian and writer. He was one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python. He portrayed authority figures such as The Colonel and the lead role in two P ...
– Comedian; one of the six members of the surreal comedy group
Monty Python
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Anjem Choudary – Islamist, founder of
al-Muhajiroun and
Islam4UK and a solicitor, convicted of inviting support for a proscribed organisation, namely the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
An Islamic state is a state that has a form of government based on Islamic law (sharia). As a term, it has been used to describe various historical polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. As a translation of the Arabic term ...
, under the Terrorism Act 2000
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William Job Collins
Sir William Job Collins, (9 May 1859 – 11 December 1946) was an English surgeon, anti-vaccinationist and later a Liberal politician and legislator.
Background
Collins was born at 46 Gloucester Road, Regent's Park, London the eldest son o ...
– Surgeon and politician
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Brian Colvin – Haematologist
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Albert Ruskin Cook
Sir Albert Ruskin Cook, CMG, OBE (22 March 1870 – 23 April 1951) was a British medical missionary in Uganda, and the founder of Mulago Hospital and Mengo Hospital. Together with his wife, Katharine Cook (1863–1938), he established a mate ...
– Medical missionary
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John Desmond Cronin
John Desmond Cronin (1 March 1916 – 3 January 1986) was a British surgeon and Labour Party politician.
Early life and education
He was born in Simla, British India (since 1947 known as Shimla), the summer capital of India in the days of the ...
– Politician and surgeon
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Tim Crow – Psychiatrist
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Thomas Blizard Curling – Surgeon
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John Langdon Down
John Langdon Haydon Down (18 November 1828 – 7 October 1896) was a British physician best known for his description of the genetic condition now known as Down syndrome, which he originally classified in 1862. He is also noted for his work in ...
– first to describe
Down syndrome
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, a genetic disorder named after him
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Horace Evans, 1st Baron Evans - Welsh GP, personal physician to
King George VI
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Pamela Evans – GP and author
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John Fenning
John Reginald Keith Fenning (23 June 1885 – 3 January 1955) was a British medical doctor and rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Fenning was born in Fulham, London. He entered London Hospital Medical College in January 1904 bu ...
– British doctor and Olympic gold medallist
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John Freke – First ophthalmic surgeon
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Archibald Garrod
Sir Archibald Edward Garrod (25 November 1857 – 28 March 1936) was an English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism. He also discovered alkaptonuria, understanding its inheritance. He served as Regius Professor of ...
– The physician first to appreciate the importance of biochemistry in medicine
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Richard Gordon – Screenwriter and novelist
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Martin Gore CBE - Professor of Medical Oncology
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Major Greenwood
Major Greenwood Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (9 August 1880 – 5 October 1949) was an English epidemiologist and statistician.
Biography
Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in East End of London, London's East End, the only chil ...
– Epidemiologist and statistician
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Wilfred Grenfell
Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (28 February 1865 – 9 October 1940) was a British medical missionary to Newfoundland, who wrote books on his work and other topics. Early life and education
He was born at Parkgate, Cheshire, England, on 28 Febr ...
, KCMG, – Medical missionary
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Gordon Hamilton-Fairley
Gordon Hamilton Fairley DM, FRCP (20 April 1930 – 23 October 1975) was a professor of medical oncology. Born and raised in Australia, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he studied and worked. He was killed by a Provisional Irish Republican ...
– Oncologist
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Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn – Politician
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William Harvey
William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions in anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, the systemic circulation and propert ...
– Described circulation
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Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton
Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton, PC (15 January 1904 – 22 August 1989) was a British physician and medical spokesman, radio speaker, member of parliament, government minister and broadcasting executive.
Early life and career
Charles H ...
– Politician and former chairman of the BBC
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James Hinton – Surgeon and author
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Ebbe Hoff
Ebbe Curtis Hoff (August 12, 1906 in Rexford, Kansas – February 17, 1985 in Richmond, Virginia) was chairman of the Department of Neurological Science at the Medical College of Virginia, founding Dean, School of Graduate Studies and founding di ...
– Founding director of the Virginia Division of Substance Abuse
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Eric John Holborow – Physician and immunologist, known for his pioneering research on autoimmunity
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Jonathan Hutchinson
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (23 July 1828 – 23 June 1913), was an English surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, venereologist, and pathologist.
Life
He was born in Selby, Yorkshire, of Quaker parents and educated in the local school. Then he ...
– Ophthalmologist
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John Hughlings Jackson – Neurologist
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John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley
John Henderson Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley, (3 July 1905 – 28 December 1987) was a British general practitioner (GP) who, in 1952, co-founded the College of General Practitioners. In 1967 the royal prefix was approved and the college was renam ...
– British GP, co-founder of the
Royal College of General Practitioners
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John Hunter – Surgeon and anatomist. The Hunterian Society is named in his honour.
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Donald McIntosh Johnson
Donald McIntosh Johnson (17 February 1903 – 5 November 1978) was a British general practitioner, author and politician who was a member of parliament for nine years. He regarded himself as a 'Cassandra' (one whose prophecies were true but nev ...
– Author and politician
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William Lawrence – Surgeon, a founder of British ophthalmology
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William Elford Leach
William Elford Leach FRS (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist.
Life and work
Elford Leach was born at Hoe Gate, Plymouth, the son of an attorney. At the age of twelve he began a medical appre ...
– English zoologist and marine biologist
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John Leech – Caricaturist
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Irene Leigh – Dermatologist
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Suzy Lishman
Suzannah Claire "Suzy" Lishman CBE (born ) was the President of the Royal College of Pathologists 2014–2017.
Career
Lishman was educated at King's Ely, and Girton College, Cambridge, and after qualifying in medicine specialised in histopath ...
– Former President of the
Royal College of Pathologists
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Its main function is the overseeing of postgraduate training, and its Fellowship Examination (FRCPath) is recognised as the standard assessment of fitness to pr ...
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William John Little
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– Surgeon, pioneer of orthopaedic surgery
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Martyn Lloyd-Jones
David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981) was a Welsh Protestant minister and medical doctor who was influential in the Calvinist wing of the British evangelical movement in the 20th century. For almost 30 years, he was the minister of Westminste ...
– Evangelical Christian religious leader
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Morell Mackenzie
Sir Morell Mackenzie (7 July 1837 – 3 February 1892) was a British physician, one of the pioneers of laryngology in the United Kingdom.
Biography
Morell Mackenzie was born at Leytonstone, Essex, England on 7 July 1837. He was the eldest of ni ...
– Pioneer of laryngology
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Johann Malawana
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– Leader of BMA Junior Doctors Committee, Trade Unionist
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William Marsden – Surgeon, founder of The
Royal Free and
Marsden Hospitals
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Peter William Mathieson – President of the
University of Hong Kong
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John Preston Maxwell John Preston Maxwell (5 December 1871 – 25 July 1961), son of James Laidlaw Maxwell, was a Presbyterian obstetric missionary to China.
John Preston Maxwell was born on 5 December 1871 in Birmingham, where his father Dr James Laidlaw Maxwell, ...
– Medical missionary
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Parveen Kumar – Co-Author of world renowned medical textbook 'Kumar and Clarke's', Former president of the
British Medical Association and the
Royal Society of Medicine
The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) is a medical society in the United Kingdom, headquartered in London.
History
The Society was established in 1805 as Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, meeting in two rooms in barristers’ chamber ...
. Lectures occasionally at the Medical School.
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Robert Morrison – Medical missionary
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Richard Owen – English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist
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James Parkinson
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– Political activist and first to describe Parkinson's Disease
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Sir James Paget
Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet FRS HFRSE (11 January 1814 – 30 December 1899) (, rhymes with "gadget") was an English surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for naming Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virc ...
– Surgeon and founder of scientific medical pathology
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Jonathan Pereira – Pharmacologist
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Percivall Pott
Percivall Pott (6 January 1714, in London – 22 December 1788) was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopaedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen.
Career
He was the ...
– English surgeon, founder of orthopaedy
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Sir Bentley Purchase – Coroner, involved in
Operation Mincemeat
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Peter J. Ratcliffe – British Nobel Laureate physician-scientist
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W. H. R. Rivers – Psychiatrist, psychiatric anthropologist
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Sir Ronald Ross
Sir Ronald Ross (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the f ...
– first British Nobel laureate, known for his work on the transmission of malaria
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Martine Rothblatt
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– Entrepreneur, author, founder of
United Therapeutics
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and
Sirius Radio
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Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially la ...
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Tareq Suheimat – Jordanian physician, military general and statesman
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William Scovell Savory – Surgeon
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Jay Sean
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– Singer-Song Writer
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G. Spencer-Brown
George Spencer-Brown (2 April 1923 – 25 August 2016) was an English polymath best known as the author of '' Laws of Form''. He described himself as a "mathematician, consulting engineer, psychologist, educational consultant and practitioner, co ...
– Mathematician
* Frederick Howard Taylor – Medical missionary
* Herbert Hudson Taylor – Medical missionary
* Hudson Taylor – Medical missionary
* Roger Meddows Taylor, Roger Taylor – Drummer of the band Queen
* Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet – Surgeon
* Daniel Hack Tuke – Expert on mental illness
* William Turner (University Principal), William Turner – Anatomist and former principal of the University of Edinburgh
* John Waterlow – British physiologist
* Hugh Christian Watkins, Hugh Watkins – Cardiologist
['WATKINS, Prof. Hugh Christian', in ''Who's Who (UK), Who's Who 2012'' (London: A. & C. Black, 2012)]
* William James Erasmus Wilson – Surgeon
* Peter Wingfield – Actor
* Robert Winston – Gynaecologist and politician
* Arthur Wint – Olympic gold medallist
* Adeline Yen Mah – Author and physician
Fictional alumni
* Harold Legg – Doctor in the British soap opera EastEnders from 1985 to 1997, making guest appearances in 2000 and 2004.
* Dr. Watson – Sherlock Holmes's companion and "biographer": not only did the two first meet in the pathology laboratories in 1881, but Watson studied and met his friend Stamford (who was Watson's "dresser" – the equivalent nowadays of the surgical houseman) at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in the mid/late 1870s.
See also
* Medical school in the United Kingdom
* Third oldest university in England debate
References
External links
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Barts and The London Students' Association websiteLists of St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School studentsSt. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School military personnel,1914–1918
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Dental schools in England
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