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About us

Lancaster Medical School is recognised for its subject expertise, supportive community and satisfied students. As a team, we nurture talent to bring out the full potential of our students.

Our professional values

Lancaster Medical School works under the General Medical Council (GMC) professional values and fitness to practise guidelines.

The aim of this guidance is specific to medical students with a view to balance a positive approach to professional behaviour embedding and developing consistent fitness to practise procedures, essential to a successful career within the health sector.

"Strive to be the best doctor you can be, competent in your knowledge and clinical skills, nonetheless aware of your limits. Always make the care and safety of your patients your first concern, communicate with them, empathise with them and show them compassion and dignity.

You must work collaboratively with colleagues and treat them with courtesy and respect. Be honest and worthy of the trust patients hold in you and the trust society holds in your profession."

A student doctor examines a patient

Latest news

An ivory object, assumed to be of Asian elephant origin, under the microscope inside a Renishaw in Via Raman microspectrometer

Laser technology offers breakthrough in detecting illegal ivory

A new way of quickly distinguishing between illegal elephant ivory and legal mammoth tusk ivory could prove critical to fighting the illegal ivory trade. 
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).
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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.

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Athena SWAN

The Athena Swan Silver Award recognises our commitment to advancing the careers of women in higher education and research.

Athena SWAN

Widening participation

The Lancaster Medical School is committed to recruiting students from all backgrounds, to ensure that our future doctors reflect the diversity within our society. Find out more about the range of different initiatives available at Lancaster University.

Learn more about our initiative

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