About Oxford Medical School (2025 Edition)
Oxford’s Medicine Course is highly prestigious and competitive, with Oxford University ranked as the world’s best institution for medical and health teaching and research. Oxford takes a traditional approach with distinct pre-clinical and clinical phases, allowing students to fully understand and explore the scientific theory underlying clinical practice before stepping foot onto hospital wards. The school provides excellent teaching, immersive practicals and great resources. The medical student body is one of the most diverse at the university.
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Being a collegiate university, students benefit to membership to one of the 39 colleges. The college provides accommodation and other facilities including dining halls, study rooms and libraries. At Oxford, everyone is a member of a college as well as their subject department(s) and the University. Students therefore have both the benefits of belonging to a large, renowned institution and to a small and friendly academic community. Alongside your college community you will be able to develop your interests, old or new, through over 400 clubs and societies, many of them University-wide. Oxford is packed with shops, restaurants, attractions, the Westgate shopping centre, and has good public transport links. After lectures/practicals, students normally go to work in local, off-site and on-site cafés.
The experience of studying at Oxford can vary a bit between colleges, since they are spread out in different locations around the city. Accommodation is normally provided by your college. There are a countless number of societies you can get involved with, many of which run their own socials and events. Your college will also do its own events; for example, every week at Christ Church, the welfare reps organise a Late Night Tea Break. College-based and intercollegiate sports are also prominent, competitive or social. Each college has between 4 and 6 medical students, together with just over one hundred other undergraduates studying various subjects, creating a diverse and friendly community to study, live and socialise in.
Oxford medical society is run for and by pre-clinical medical students at Oxford, aiming to bring students across all three years together for a range of events throughout the year. It organises numerous events throughout the year which provide a great opportunity to meet other pre-clinical students. The MedSoc Ball, held annually in Michaelmas term, is always very popular and has taken place in venues such as Blenheim Palace and Oxford Town Hall. The Welfare team always provides a supportive, kind and caring environment to listen and support you throughout your time as a medical student.
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