Cardiff University School of Medicine

Cardiff University School of Medicine (Welsh: Ysgol Feddygaeth Prifysgol Caerdydd)

The School of Medicine at Cardiff is one of the largest in the UK, employing nearly 500 academic and 300 support staff. Over 1000 undergraduate and 1100 postgraduate students are currently enrolled on medical and science courses, and the School has an annual financial turnover of over £50 million, of which nearly half comes from competitive external research funding.The school is situated at Cardiff University, Wales, UK, with the clinical departments at the University Hospital of Wales, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the north. It was founded as the Cardiff Medical School in 1893 when the Departments of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology were established at University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (now Cardiff University). A department of Pathology and Bacteriology was added in 1910. Students finishing their preclinical studies at Cardiff went on to other medical schools for their clinical studies. Most went to University College Hospital in London, part of University College London. In 1921 it became a full medical school with the name of the Welsh National School of Medicine, and in 1931 it became an independent institution of the University of Wales. The name was further changed in 1984, to University of Wales College of Medicine. In 2004, the College was re-united with Cardiff University, forming the Cardiff University School of Medicine. By 2008 the medical school it had an intake of some 305 British medical students per year and an additional 25 students from overseas, making Cardiff one of the largest UK medical schools. The Medical School is situated at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK. 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 state-of-the-art 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, Professor Archie Cochrane. Professor Cochrane was the founding father of the evidence-based-medicine movement and one of the most important medical scientists of the twentieth century.