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To train as a general practitioner (GP), after completing a Foundation Programme (not limited to Scotland), a doctor must complete three years of speciality training (ST). This comprises a minimum of 12 to 18 months of posts in a variety of hospital specialities - often including paediatrics , psychiatry , geriatrics and obstetrics & gynaecology .
ScotGEM is an intensive four-year graduate entry medicine programme run by the universities of St Andrews and Dundee in collaboration with four health boards: NHS Fife, Tayside, Highland and Dumfries and Galloway. The course is led for first and second year by the University of St Andrews and in third and fourth year by the University of Dundee.
University of St Andrews School of Medicine: St Andrews: 1897 Medicine taught at St Andrews from 1413. First MD awarded 1696. First Professor appointed 1721. The medical school was established in 1897. [8] Clinical teaching undertaken at University College, Dundee until 1967.
This allows students from Oxford, Cambridge, and St Andrews to complete their bachelor's degree at their respective institution and obtain their medical degree and clinical training at the University of Edinburgh. [6] Admission is extremely competitive, with an acceptance rate of 2.5% in the 2021-2022 admissions year. [7]
2/3+2+1 (London, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge) 2/3 year pre-clinical course in which predominantly non-clinical subjects are studied, with occasional day or half-day "early experience" events where students will visit a hospital, a General Practice or visit a family in their home.
The hospital is well linked to St Andrews Bus Station and the town centre by regular public bus services provided by Stagecoach in Fife and Moffat & Williamson. Service no. 64 goes directly to Stratheden Hospital in Cupar, and service no. 99 goes to Leuchars railway station and to Dundee bus station, from where connections to Ninewells Hospital are available.
St Andrew's Chief Executive, Katie Fisher, has spoken publicly about the challenges the hospital faces when discharging patients, as there is a lack of suitable community places for people to move on to. In May 2019, Fisher told the BBC that the organisation "has up to 50 patients stuck in secure units".
College Hall, within the 16th-century St Mary's College building. In 1410 a group of Augustinian clergy, driven from the University of Paris by the Avignon schism and from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge by the Anglo-Scottish Wars, formed a society of higher learning in St Andrews, offering courses of lectures in divinity, logic, philosophy, and law.