St George's, University of London

We are the only UK university to share a campus with a teaching hospital, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, so you are immersed in a professional environment from day one. You can walk from lecture theatre to laboratory to hospital ward or clinic with ease. You will be integrated into a professional healthcare environment from day one. The majority of our teaching staff also hold clinical roles in the NHS or private clinics or have previously worked as a healthcare professional, so you will learn from academics with real on-the-job experience.

 

Boost your career

Right from the start of your course, we work to ensure that your skills and experience stand out to employers. You will benefit from a diverse choice of placements in clinical settings across London and by learning from a curriculum that is constantly evolving to keep pace with current practice.

Our students and graduates are passionate about healthcare. If you choose to study with us, you can be assured that right from the start of your course we are working to capture your passion and make your CV stand out to employers.

 

Professional links

As a specialist healthcare and medical higher education institution, we have established strong relationships with healthcare providers throughout London. These help provide our students with clinical placements in hospitals and other healthcare settings.

Our medical students work with real patients from the second week of their first year, and students on our other clinically based programmes work on placement from their second year.

Biomedical science students have access to professional networks that put them in the best position to gain work experience during their holidays, such as research and lab-based internships.

 

Up-to-date clinical practice

Our professional links also inform teaching on our courses, keeping them up to date with the needs of today’s evolving clinical practice. Many courses use problem-based learning as a way to bring learning to life, and dedicated employability sessions are incorporated into programmes from year one.

 

Interprofessional learning: learning from each other

Right from the start, students on all our courses learn with, from and about each other. The aim of this interprofessional learning is to reflect the multidisciplinary nature of delivering healthcare today.

 

Our careers service

Our careers service offers advice and support to current students and recent graduates.

We encourage our students to start thinking about their career options early, and to develop their employability skills during their time at St George’s, both independently and through curriculum-based activities. Our careers service, offered through the University of London, works closely with all of our courses to make sure the best support is given to students at all levels of study. There is also individual support for students throughout their study. This support includes:

• thinking about career options including postgraduate study
• career decision-making
• preparing job applications, CVs and covering letters
• job interviews and assessment centres
• identifying your transferable skills.

 

Our history

St George’s Hospital Medical School was established in 1733 and initially based at Hyde Park Corner, before moving to our Tooting site in 1980. It was the second institution in England to provide formal training courses for doctors. 

St George’s alumni include pioneers in medicine, John Hunter, Edward Jenner, Henry Gray and Patrick Steptoe. 

 

Our focus

St George’s has a dynamic research culture, with teams working to improve the health of people of all ages, from children to the elderly, in populations locally and globally. 

We are the only UK university based in a hospital (St George’s Hospital). This is also where Channel 4 television series 24 hours in A&E is filmed). 

St George’s is the only university in the UK to specialise in healthcare and medicine. 

 

Our community

St George’s has a 12.8 student to staff ratio. Find out more about student life here.

St George’s is home to over 5,500 students and over 800 members of staff. 

 

Ranking and awards

St George’s is ranked first for graduate prospects by the Complete University Guide. 

St George’s holds a coveted Athena SWAN institutional ‘Silver’ Award from Advance HE in recognition of its commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion for the whole University community. 

St George’s is ranked 4th in the UK for our Research Impact Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014.