University of Edinburgh Medical School - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • In the television show NCIS, the chief medical examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard studied medicine at Edinburgh.
  • In the BBC soap opera Doctors, Dr. Emma Reid studied medicine at Edinburgh
  • The character Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was based on Dr. Joseph Bell, a graduate and lecturer at Edinburgh.

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