As Ireland’s leading medical school, the UCD School of Medicine offers undergraduate degree programmes in Medicine (direct entry and graduate entry), Physiology, Radiography and Biomedical Health & Life Sciences. The School has over forty graduate taught programmes ranging from certificate to masters degree awards and a further twenty graduate research programmes at masters or doctoral level with over 400 graduate students. Our portfolio of biomedical, clinical and translational research has over 75 principal investigators, 50 post-doctoral scientists and 250 doctoral students with grants under management worth approximately €75 million. Together with Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and St Vincent’s Healthcare Group, the School has established Ireland's first academic health centre, Dublin Academic Medical Centre and is the academic partner in the emerging Ireland East Hospital Group, a network of 11 acute hospitals. Our clinical training programmes are delivered at six major Dublin teaching hospitals and across the country through sixteen affiliated acute, general or specialist hospitals. The School also has a nationwide primary care clinical training network comprising over 190 general practitioners. Our large and experienced academic faculty, innovative programmes and state-of-the-art facilities provide a stimulating education and research environment for students. These academic activities aim to improve patient healthcare by purposefully linking treatment, teaching and research capability.
