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Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Medical School has emerged from the amalgamation of a number of prestigious institutions over a period of some years.

These are the medical schools of the Middlesex Hospital, University College Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital. These organisations combine a rich past in the history of science and medicine with advanced clinical practice.

• The Middlesex Hospital started training doctors in 1746
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• The Royal Free Hospital was founded in 1828 by the surgeon William Marsden to provide free care to those of little means
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• University College Hospital opened in 1834 and was the only one in London to be built to provide a university faculty with a hospital for teaching purposes
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• The London School of Medicine for Women was established in 1874 and was the first medical school in the United Kingdom to train women as doctors.ÌýÌý
  
  In 1877 The Royal Free Hospital agreed to allow students from The London School of Medicine for Women to complete their clinical studies there and by 1896 was renamed The London Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine for Women
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• The medical schools of the Middlesex Hospital and University College Hospital merged in 1987 to form the University College and Middlesex School of Medicine
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• In 1998 The Royal Free & University College Medical School was formed from the merger of the two medical schools. On 1 October 2008, it was officially renamed Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Medical School

Associated with Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Medical School are several world-famous medical institutions which are now Institutes in the School of Life and Medical Sciences, including:

• the (Great Ormond Street),
• the Institute of Neurology (The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery),
• the Ear Institute (The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital)
• and the (Moorfields Eye Hospital).

Staff from these Institutes design and deliver the MBBS programme together with colleagues from .

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Medical School and its predecessor institutions include:

• , championed the cause of women’s health throughout her illustrious career. First female president of the British Medical Association in 1979
• Diana Beck, first woman to be appointed to the honorary staff of the Middlesex Hospital, in 1947, and is thought to have been the first female neurosurgeon in the world
• , appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
• , pioneer of attachment theory
• , former Physician to the Queen
• , virologist who helped to create the first heat stable smallpox vaccine key in the eventual eradication of the disease.
• , recent president of the Royal College of Physicians (2014–incumbent), only the third female President in its nearly 500-year history
• , leading expert on auto-immune diseases
• , director of the Wellcome Trust
• , comparative anatomist and 2nd director of the Natural History Museum.
• , former Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (2010–13), the first female Chair for 50 years
• , academic and science writer
• , neurologist who co-authored the first paper which identified pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutation in human disease (in Kearn-Sayre syndrome).
• Gwen Hilton, A major figure in the campaign to allow women students to be admitted to the UCH Medical School in 1920, went on to establish the first radiotherapy department at University College Hospital
• , one of the founders of the Indian National Congress
• , leading expert on HIV
• , television presenter
• , cardiologist who was appointed CBE and also knighted.
• , 8th director general of Hadassah Medical Organization
• , soldier who received both the Victoria Cross and the Bar.
• , recent president at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2014-2017)
• , television journalist and presenter
• , the is named after him
• , former President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2005–08). Life peer in House of Lords since 2010.
• , was a British clinician, physiologist and pharmacologist, best known for inventing Ringer's solution.
• , ethnographer
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• William Squire,Ìýgave the first anaesthetic in England in 1846
• , rugby union international who represented England (1871–75).
• , first female president elected at the Royal College of Physicians (1989-1992)
• Albertine Louise Winner, first woman to win the University gold medal as a student, had a distinguished career as a physician and medical administrator