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, Southampton and Leicester.
In 2000, Leicester Medical School assisted the University of Warwick in the foundation of the Leicester-Warwick Medical School, combining Leicester's own school with a new institution based in Warwick. 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, and recreating Leicester Medical School. Warwick, along with Swansea University, are currently the only medical schools in the UK which restrict entry to graduate students.
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