Merton offers an outstanding medical education, complementing the teaching provided by the Medical School. Ours is a stimulating and supportive learning environment which combines high-quality tutorial teaching with outstanding opportunities for research and excellent support for clinical students.
Subject Intake: Six
Course Duration: Three years (BA); Six Years (BM BCh)
Course Listing and Admissions Criteria: Medicine at Oxford.
Teaching in Medicine is co-ordinated by the Oxford medical tutors Professor David Paterson and Professor Julian Knight, with further pre-clinical tutorial teaching provided by Professors Robert MacLaren, Andrew King, Dr Lindsay Baker, Dr Lonnie Swift and Neil Herring, alongside Mr Justin Wormald, Drs Akira Wiberg, Anant Parekh and Monique Andersson.
You will typically receive three tutorials per week in the first and second years, delivered by college Fellows who are experienced teachers and experts in their subject area. In this stage of the Oxford medicine course you will study anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, biochemistry and pathology, which provide you with the foundation for your Final Honours School (your third year).
In your third year of the medicine degrees, you have the opportunity to focus your study on those areas of medicine that most interest you, working in outstanding facilities and laboratories across the Medical Sciences Division. You also undertake your own research project, working alongside an Oxford academic.
Once you have completed your third year of the Medicine undergraduate course, you will graduate with a BA in Medical Sciences, and then progress to the clinical medicine component of the course (years 4-6). At this stage you receive all your formal training at the John Radcliffe Hospital, although Merton students will also have a college advisor to oversee progress. In addition, Merton Oxford clinical medicine students have regular bedside teaching from an experienced clinical tutor (Dr Monique Andersson) and surgical tutor (Mr Justin Wormald).
Teaching is provided, and progress overseen, by tutors who are world leaders in their field, and have a genuine interest in working with the next generation of medics and medical scientists.
In addition to the medical tutors and lecturers who provide the teaching to medical students, there are many other Fellows at Merton who undertake world-leading medical research, for example, the current Radcliffe Professor of Medicine, Professor Hugh Watkins FRS, is a Fellow at Merton.
The College's medical society bears the name of Mertonian William Harvey, who discovered the circulation of the blood. It is run by students and through dinners and talks aims to bring together members at different stages of their careers.
One of the key textbooks for Cardiovascular Physiology students is written by Professor Paterson, one of our tutors, and Dr Herring, a Lecturer at Merton.
Merton provides generous academic grants and funding for small items of equipment, electives and travel.
