Location of Teaching

In the current curriculum, Medical Students commence their first year studies at the historic Marischal College campus near the city centre. Lectures and tutorials are based here, while the introduction to patients is based in General Practices around Aberdeen City.

 

From the second year, most clinical teaching takes place in the Medical School and its main teaching hospitals (Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, Royal Cornhill Hospital and Woodend Hospital), all situated on or near the magnificent Foresterhill site, which is one of the largest clinical campuses in Europe. The hospitals incorporate the full range of clinical facilities required for the population of the North East of Scotland with superb teaching and extensive research facilities.

Patient contact is gradually increased such that by year 5, students are placed on attachments in a variety of clinical locations across the whole of North Eastern Scotland, Grampian and the Highlands and Islands. The clinical locations and facilities offered by Aberdeen are exceptional and give all students the opportunity to study medicine in the widest of locations. Students are able to undertake arguably, the most widespread and diverse clinical placements in the UK. 

 

The Medical School has very close links with other clinical units in Grampian and the Highlands and Islands, in particular Dr Gray's Hospital, Elgin and Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, and all students undertake hospital-based clinical placements outside Aberdeen. This variety of placements allows our students to experience not only inner-city medicine, but also gives a unique opportunity to see how health care is delivered in areas far removed from large teaching centres.

The Inverness campus at Raigmore Hospital is the gateway to healthcare delivery in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Our new Remote and Rural Option has been developed to be undertaken in Phases III and IV for students with a special interest in careers in a Remote and Rural setting.  These students undertake their clinical attachments within more distant locations. The Remote and Rural Option is based at Raigmore Hospital, utilising the new clinical skills centre and library.

Our extensive network of teaching general practices around Scotland also gives students opportunities to experience patient care in a community setting.

The Suttie Centre – Teaching & Learning Centre

By 2009, a new state-of-the-art Teaching and Learning Centre with additional educational and social facilities will be built on the Foresterhill site. Much of the MBChB curriculum will be delivered from this superb location and students will continue to be welcomed and encouraged to take advantage of the Centre's facilities for their own revision.