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Lancaster Medical School

A leading Medical School delivering excellence in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and research that impacts patient and public health outcomes locally, nationally and internationally. A WHO Collaborating Centre.

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  • Medicine and Surgery

    Comprised of our five-year MBChB Medicine and Surgery and our six-year MBChB Medicine and Surgery with a Gateway Year.

  • Postgraduate study

    From PgCert to Master's and PhD level, the Medical School offers a range of postgraduate options.

  • Sports and Exercise Science

    An academically rigorous programme that studies people in the context of elite sport and in the general population.

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Our research

Lancaster Medical School's academics have a wide range of research interests organised into three themes:

  • Experimental Medicine (ExpMed)

  • Interdisciplinary network for culture, health, ethics and society (INCHES)  

  • Centre for Health Informatics, Computing and Statistics (CHICAS)

Our research
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Mobile Simulation Teaching Unit

Introducing our brand new Mobile Simulation Teaching Unit delivering cutting edge simulation teaching to our students and across the community.

Mobile Simulation Teaching Unit

Mobile Simulation Teaching Unit

A £480,000 investment in the next generation of doctors and allied health professionals.

Mobile simulation Teaching Unit

Latest News and Events

Award winner Dr Steven Hall has also been invited to attend the CSPT annual conference in Ottawa

Award for Lancaster research into repurposed drugs for snakebites

Lancaster researcher Dr Steven Hall has won an award from the Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics for the best paper of the year.
From left: Vishnu Chandrabalan, Dale Kirkwood, Quinta Ashcroft, Dame Julie Moore of HDR UK and Tim Howcroft

Health Data Research UK Team of the Year Award

Two Lancaster University Professors are among a Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Data Science team which has won an award from Health Data Research UK (HDR UK).
Covid virus

AI in action: predicting hospital outbreaks with statistical precision

Statisticians at Lancaster use cutting-edge AI algorithm to predict outbreaks of infectious diseases within hospitals.
The presentation was titled ‘Evaluating the Nutrition and Body Mass Index Clinical Link Pathway (NBMI CLiP) in Mental Health and Learning Disability Services: A Mixed-Methods Study’

First place for poster presentation at Faculty of Academic Psychiatry Conference

A poster presentation co-authored by a Lancaster medical student has been awarded first place at the Faculty of Academic Psychiatry Conference 2024.
Dr Thomas Keegan

Lancaster epidemiologist on longlist for 2023 Ideas Prize

Dr Thomas Keegan from Lancaster University has been chosen as one of 10 potential authors by the judges of the Profile Books and Alexander Aitken Ideas Prize 2023.
remote monitoring technology to improve care through reducing emergency attendances and admissions to hospit

Data-driven app results in 25% fewer emergency hospital admissions from care homes

The use of a digital remote monitoring technology in care homes has been found to reduce hospital A&E attendances by 11% and emergency admissions by 25% in research led by Lancaster University

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Public events at the Faculty of Health and Medicine

From public lecture series, to student-focused webinars, there's always something going on at the Faculty of Health and Medicine.

19th Apr

Queer Medical Humanities Network: Public Research Showcase

Friday 19 April 2024, 10:00am to 6:00pm
23rd Apr

Workshop on Caste, Religion, Education and Occupational Mobility in Contemporary South Asia

Tuesday 23 April 2024, 10:00am to 4:00pm

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