About Newcastle Medical School (2025 Edition)
Newcastle University Medical school is an encouraging and receptive community that promotes competency. It invests in its equipment, research, staff, and medical students. Patient-student interaction is incorporated from the very beginning, to nurture the qualities of good doctors and provide practical experience in handling real patient situations. Due to its robust feedback system, the medical school listens, supports, and delivers, making it one of the best-rated medical schools in terms of student satisfaction.
The campus is situated in the heart of the city. Newly built student accommodation is a 30-second walk from the medical school (making the 9am starts slightly easier). Situated in the centre, there is easy access to town and the train station, both in a one-mile radius. Newcastle student union is always live with one event or another. Medical students here work hard, but they play harder. If you fancy joining a society, there are hundreds to choose from—medicine and non-medicine related, like Newcastle University Plastics Reconstructive and Aesthetics Society (NUPRAS), Wilderness Medicine Society, and Musical Medics Society, just to name a few. If none of these catch your eye, you can create your own! You can play socially or competitively in university or medic clubs.
Medics are welcomed by a medic 'family' who are there to guide you through your transition to medical school, making you feel more at home from the very beginning. Newcastle is known for its spiritness and it does not disappoint. Although medics spend long hours together learning, the accommodation and societies are not differentiated between medics and non-medics. This gives you a chance to familiarise yourself, build relationships, and network with people from all courses at the uni. From debates to live music, theatre, and trips, Newcastle boasts a wide range of events ever so often, adding the much-needed excitement to your lives. Should you need someone to speak to, student wellbeing is always at your doorstep.
Newcastle MedSoc is known for its socials and the much-anticipated, half-yearly balls. Although not limited to, a free-bar every Friday is the highlight of the week for most medics across all years. A lifetime membership to MedSoc gives you a ticket to all events hosted by the society. The committee is approachable, friendly, and supportive. MedSoc and MedEd allied together bring to life events that are both educational and entertaining. Newcastle MedSoc and Newcastle MedEd on Instagram keep their members up to date with what's happening.
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