The UCD School of Medicine (Scoil an Leighis UCD) at University College Dublin, Ireland, was founded in 1854.[1] At undergraduate level, the school offers programmes in Medicine MB BCh BAO (undergraduate and graduate entry), BSc Biomedical Health and Life Sciences, and the BSc Radiography.[1] At graduate level, the school UCD offers over 40 programmes for health care professionals.[1]
The Catholic University Medical School was founded in 1854 and in 1908 it became the medical faculty of UCD.[1] After 75 years at its original location on Cecilia Street, it moved to Earlsfort Terrace.[4] In 2007 UCD moved again, to Belfield campus.[4] The Health Science building sits adjacent to the Conway Institute (a biomedical and biomolecular research centre), Ireland's Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases, and the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology. The UCD National Virus Reference Laboratory is also located on the Belfield campus.[2]
The University College Dublin degree in Radiography is the oldest in Europe with the first graduates being conferred in 1994. It is the only Diagnostic Imaging Programme in the Republic of Ireland.
In 2020, of the five medical schools offering medical degrees to undergraduates in the Republic of Ireland, UCD had the highest required CAO points to gain entry, at 737.[9] In 2021 points required for undergraduate entry into UCD Medicine rose from 737 to 743, tied with Trinity for the highest requirement.[10]
Likewise in 2022, UCD once again was tied with Trinity for highest required CAO points at 743, to study medicine in Ireland.[11] In 2023 the points requirement for UCD medicine was 736, making it the second highest points requirement behind Trinity at 741.[12]
Internationaledit
In the subject listed as "Medicine", the 2023 QS World University Rankings gave University College Dublin a ranking of 151–200.[13] The US News 2022 "Best Global Universities for Clinical Medicine" rankings gave UCD a position of 228 among 1,000 schools scored, the highest among Irish schools.[14][15]
For American applicants who wish to enter the four-year graduate entry medical program, the minimum GPA required from a completed undergraduate degree program is 3.0 and the MCAT must be a 503 or higher.[2]
Global graduate destinationsedit
UCD students have secured residencies at (but not limited to) the following training programmes:[3][16]
Garret A. FitzGerald – Professor of translational medicine and Therapeutics and chair of the department of pharmacology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.[19] His work contributed substantially to the development of low-dose aspirin to prevent heart attacks and strokes.[20] His work showing that selective COX-2 inhibitors depress the production of prostacyclin in the endothelium, thereby increasing cardiovascular risk, was instrumental in the withdrawal of Vioxx (rofecoxib) from the U.S. market in 2004[20]
Maura Lynch – Catholic nun, doctor, women's rights advocate, founding member of the Association of Surgeons in Uganda, North–South Prize recipient[24][25]
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^"Irish doctor becomes first female president of Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland". The Telegraph. 3 June 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
^"Professor Patrick Meenan Dean, UCD School of Medicine 1973 – 1985". UCD Medicine. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
^"BILL MULCAHYIreland". espnscrum. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
^"Final year medicine studies and Leinster career keeping Murphy busy". the42. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
^"Josh Murphy striving to become Leinster's backrow doctor". Irish Times. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
^Lunney, Linde (2012). "O'Brien, Mary Lucy". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
^"Paul O'Byrne to be new dean & vice-president of the Faculty of Health Sciences". McMaster University. McMaster University. Retrieved 11 December 2015.