Welcome to Our 175th Anniversary Celebrations
On the 1st October 1834, the first officially recognised lectures commenced at the School of Medicine and Surgery in Newcastle. This was the culmination of many years of discussion amongst a group of local practitioners who felt passionately that health provision was insufficient and that medical careers required greater levels of professionalisation through high quality and practical learning.
As student numbers grew and public demand for trained doctors increased, Newcastle rapidly became the leading provincial school for medical teaching outside London and Oxbridge. Newcastle Medical School now provides for over 1500 trainee doctors across the entire North East region of England and by 2011 will have completed a new medical campus in Malaysia.
We have great (Geordie) pride in the fact that that the School of 1834 was effectively the founding school of Newcastle University, while at the same time acknowledging the shared history we have with our regional partners including Durham University (The College of Medicine was a Durham University College from 1870 until 1963) and the regional hospitals that have and continue to provide the practical training ground for our trainee medical students.
I welcome you to our anniversary website to explore more about the history of the School in Newcastle and find out about the life changing role our medics and researchers play in society.
Details of our current world leading research can be found on the Newcastle Biomedicine website.
Professor Chris Day
FMedSci
