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Encyclopedia > Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry
Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry
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Established 1995 as a combined institution.
President The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London
Warden Professor Sir Nick Wright
Location London, United Kingdom
Students 2300 total
Homepage http://www.smd.qmul.ac.uk

Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry (also known as BL or often referred to simply as Barts) is the medical school of Queen Mary, University of London (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London) and has existed in this form since 1995. Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) (until 2000 Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and still called that in its charter [1] and occasionally still abbreviated to QMW) is the fourth largest College of the University of London. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...


It was formed in that year by the merger of the London Hospital Medical College (the oldest medical school in England and Wales, founded in 1785), the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital (the hospital having been founded in about 1123 and teaching medicine from that date, initially as an apprenticeship until it formally became a medical college in1843) and Queen Mary and Westfield College (which began teaching medicine in 1989). St Bartholomew's hospital is, notably, the oldest remaining hospital in England. 1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Events First Council of the Lateran confirms Concordat of Worms and demands that priests remain celibate End of the reign of Emperor Toba of Japan. ... Year 1843 (MDCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ...

Part of the Charterhouse Square site
Part of the Charterhouse Square site

The school exists on three main sites, having a presence at Queen Mary's main (Mile End) campus as well as at the site of both of the former colleges at and near their respective hospitals, St Bartholomew's Hospital (in Smithfield, City of London and nearby in Charterhouse Square), and the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets. A new building (Blizard Building), named after the founder of The London Hospital Medical College, Sir William Blizard, has recently been completed at the Royal London site, and houses both laboratories and the main site for medical undergraduate teaching. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Mile End is an area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London, England. ... The King Henry VIII Gate at Barts, which was constructed in 1702. ... Smithfield meat market from the south Smithfield is an area in the north-west part of the City of London (which is itself the historic core of a much larger London). ... Motto: Domine dirige nos Latin: Lord, guide us Shown within Greater London Sovereign state United Kingdom Constituent country England Region Greater London Status sui generis, City and Ceremonial County Admin HQ Guildhall Government  - Leadership see text  - Mayor John Stuttard  - MP Mark Field  - London Assembly John Biggs Area  - City  1. ... Charterhouse Hospital in around 1770. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Whitechapel is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom. ... The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough to the east of the City of London and north of the River Thames in East London. ... The Blizard Building is a building in Whitechapel in east London. ...

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History

Barts and The London, School of Medicine and Dentistry (previously St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry) was formed in 1995 by a merger of St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College and the London Hospital Medical College with Queen Mary and Westfield College, now known as Queen Mary, University of London. Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) (until 2000 Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and still called that in its charter [1] and occasionally still abbreviated to QMW) is the fourth largest College of the University of London. ...


The Medical College at the Royal London Hospital, England's first medical school, opened in 1785, pioneering a new kind of medical education providing teaching in theory as well as clinical skills. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


A purpose-built lecture theatre was constructed at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1791 and in 1822 the Governors approved the provision of medical education within the Hospital. Later a residential college was established, which moved to premises at Charterhouse Square in the 1930s. At The London, larger premises, still in use in the present School of Medicine and Dentistry, were built in Turner Street in 1854. The King Henry VIII Gate at Barts, which was constructed in 1702. ... Charterhouse Hospital in around 1770. ...


In 1900 both medical colleges became constituent colleges of University of London in the Faculty of Medicine. The University of London is a university based primarily in London. ...


The Dental School opened at The London in 1911, acquiring the new Dental Institute and expanding student numbers during the 1960s. Dental education developed during the 1970s, increasing the collaboration between dentists and other professionals.


Between the Wars, students at The London needing to complete a First MB (in Biology, Chemistry and Physics) attended Queen Mary College for a year before proceeding to Second MB at The London.


Women students were first admitted to both colleges following World War II.


A close association between the two medical colleges was developed following the Royal Commission on Medical Education in 1968, and new links with the then Queen Mary College were established at the same time. In 1989 the pre-clinical teaching at the two medical colleges was merged and sited at the Basic Medical Sciences Building at Queen Mary. In 1992, Barts, The London and the London Chest Hospital joined to form the (now) Barts and The London NHS Trust, with a full merger of the medical colleges with Queen Mary taking place three years later. Today Barts and The London is one of Britain's leading medical and dental schools with 1,600 undergraduate and 750 postgraduate students and a growing reputation for research across many disciplines. Barts and The London NHS Trust is an NHS Trust operating in the City of London and East London. ...


Barts and The London Students' Association

Barts and The London Students' Association is the students' union for the medical school, an autonomous part of Queen Mary Students' Union (QMSU) formed when the Students Union of St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School and the London Hospital Clubs Union merged with QMSU at the time their parent bodies merged in 1995. The medical school's Students' Association has a very distinct culture from that of QMSU, and has separate clubs and societies for most sports. Because the Students' Association's constitution precludes religious societies, there is a "combined" Islamic Society with Queen Mary Students' Union, and some of the smaller sports also have combined medic/non-medic clubs as neither QMSU nor the Students' Association could muster sufficient numbers alone to form a full team. Barts and The London Students Association is the students union for those studying at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. ... Queen Mary Students Union (commonly referred to as QMSU) is the students union for Queen Mary, University of London. ...


The merger of the two medical schools with Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1995 was not without considerable pain as three institutions with long, separate and distinct histories and cultures came together. For example, Barts Medical School and The London Hospital Medical College both had large influential drinking societies, the Barts Wine Committee and The London Dionysian Society respectively.


The focal point for the social life in all the medical schools in London prior to their mergers with each other and with multi-faculty institutions had been their respective bars. Barts Bar had been run entirely by the Barts Wine Committee and had attained notoriety and some respect amongst the medical schools of London for its social life; the feeling of loss when this changed after the merger typified the initial sense of grievance held by the students at the time of the mergers. After the merger of the two schools with Queen Mary and Westfield, there was a period of intense animosity between the medical students and the non-medics, and between the two groups of medical students, often resulting in tit-for-tat pranks. This has since cooled to a modest rivalry, with an annual rugby sevens match.


The Wine Committee hosts various events during the year including The Smoker - a comedy review started during the 1890s as "Smoking Concerts" and revived in the 1960s by Graham Chapman amongst others - and a charity Christmas Dinner for local older people. Meanwhile, the influence of the drinking societies on the running of the Students' Association has diminished almost to nothing as more diverse interests have come to the fore in the Association's elected committees. This said the medical student bars are staffed by medical students with Queen Mary Students' Union taking on a more managerial role. Graham Chapman (8 January 1941–4 October 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer and physician. ...


An annual Merger Cup competition has taken place between the medics (Barts and The London Students' Association) and the non-medics (Queen Mary Students' Union) annually since the merger in 1995, with sporting matches in all of the sports where both bodies have a team. One point is awarded to the winner of each sport, and the side with the most points wins. Overall, the medics have won more often than not, despite the teams being drawn from a much smaller student population; this is sometimes ascribed to the strong sense of team identity forged by the cohesive nature of medical school.


Notable former members of faculty

William Baly (1814-1861) was an English physician who was born in Kings Lynn, in the county of Norfolk. ... Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, born 29 July 1921, Germany, son of Max Born, is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at Kings College London and Research Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, St. ... Samuel Jones Gee (September 13, 1839 – August 3, 1911) was an English physician and pediatrician. ... Alexander George Ogston (30 Jan 1911 – 29 Jun 1996) was a biochemist who specialised in the thermodynamics of biological systems. ... William Odling (1829 - 1921) was an English chemist who contributed to the development of the periodic table. ... Ian Oswald (born 1929) is a retired sleep researcher. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS, (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish-born British-naturalised physicist. ... Sir John Robert Vane (March 29, 1927 - November 19, 2004) was a British pharmacologist. ...

Alumni of The London Hospital Medical School and Barts Medical School

Famous alumni from some of the institutions which combined to form the current medical school include:

John Abernethy (1764–1831) John Abernethy (April 3, 1764 - April 20, 1831) was an English surgeon, the grandson of Reverend John Abernethy. ... William Acton (1813-1875) was a British medical doctor and book writer. ... Joseph Adams M.D. F.L.S. (1756—20 June 1818) was a British physician and surgeon. ... Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, KG, PC (19 June 1869 - 11 December British medical doctor and politician. ... Edgar Douglas Adrian won a Nobel Prize in 1932 Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian OM PRS (London, 30 November 1889 – 8 August 1977) was a British electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. ... This is a list of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge, from about 1246 to the present day: Hugh de Hotton, c. ... William Ross Ashby (September 6, 1903, London, England - November 15, 1972) was a British psychiatrist and a pioneer in the study of complex systems. ... George Augustus Auden (1872-1957), English physician, professor of public health, school medical officer, and writer on archaeological subjects. ... John Badley, F.R.C.S. (July 23, 1783 - April 16, 1870) student of John Abernethy at St. ... Edward Bancroft (January 9, 1744 – September 8, 1820) was an American physician and double agent in the American Revolution. ... Dr. Gopal Baratham (September 9, 1935 – April 23, 2002) was a Singaporean author and physician. ... Sir Harry Gilbert Barling Bart CB CBE (30 April 1855 - 27 April 1940) was a polished and graceful speaker who had reached the heights of the medical profession in Birmingham, England. ... Thomas John Barnardo (4 July 1845 — 19 September 1905), Irish philanthropist, and founder and director of homes for destitute children, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1845. ... Frederick Eustace Batten (September 29, 1865 – 1918) was an English neurologist and pediatrician who has been referred to as the father of pediatric neurology. ... Dr Hannah Billig GM, MBE (4 October 1901 -11 July 1987) was a doctor who worked in the East End of London. ... Elizabeth Blackwell . ... Sir William Blizard (1 March 1743 - 27 August 1835) was an English surgeon. ... George Bodington (1799 - 1882) was a British general practitioner and pulmonary specialist. ... Bridges on the cover of Time in 1929 Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, (October 23, 1844 – April 21, 1930) was an English poet, holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913. ... Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle (born 2 April 1875, died 15 October 1941) was a pioneering anaesthetist. ... Alfred James Broomhall (December 6, 1911 – May 11, 1994), Christian missionary to China, and author & historian of the China Inland Mission (renamed as Overseas Missionary Fellowship, OMF International [1] in 1964 and based in Singapore). ... George Busk (August 12, 1807, St Petersburg - August 10, 1886, London) was a British surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist, son of Robert Busk, merchant of St Petersburg. ... Surgeon Rear-Admiral William Carr Surgeon Rear-Admiral William James Carr (30 January 1883 - 16 May 1966), Australian naval officer, was the Royal Australian Navys Director of Naval Medical Services from 1932 to 1946. ... Graham Chapman (8 January 1941–4 October 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer and physician. ... William Job Collins (May 9, 1859, London - Dec 11, 1946, London) was a surgeon and later politician and legislator. ... Sir Albert Ruskin Cook (1870-1951) (OBE, CMG, MD) was a British born Medical missionary in Uganda, and founder of Mulago Hospital, Mengo Hospital and together with his wife Lady Katharine Cook (1863-1938), he established a maternity training school. ... John Desmond Cronin John Desmond Cronin (1916–1986) was a British politician. ... Professor Tim Crow is a British psychiatrist and researcher. ... Thomas Blizard Curling (1811-1888), British surgeon, was born in London in 1811. ... Anne Darquier (1930–September 1970), a psychiatrist, was the daughter of the French fascist Louis Darquier de Pellepoix and his Tasmanian wife, Myrtle Jones. ... Father Jeremy Davies (born 1935) an English Roman Catholic Parish Priest of Old Hall Green, is a former doctor and is also a leading exorcist. ... Notable people named Thomas Davies include: Thomas Davies (army officer) a soldier and painter in Canada [1] Thomas Davies (bishop), 16th century Bishop of St Asaph Thomas Davies (professor), director of Cal Poly San Luis Obispos choirs Thomas Davies (bookseller) (c. ... 1881 caricature from Punch Sir William James Erasmus Wilson (25 November 1809 - 7 August 1884), generally known as Sir Erasmus Wilson, was born in London, studied at Dartford Grammar School before St Bartholomews Hospital in London, and at Aberdeen, and early in life became known as a skilful surgeon... Simon Festing is the executive director of the Research Defence Society (RDS), [1] a British lobby group funded by the pharamaceutical industry and universities. ... Sir Edward Frankland (January 18, 1825 – August 9, 1899) was an English chemist. ... John Freke (1688-1756) was an English surgeon. ... Gerald Bernard Gallagher (born July 6, 1912 - died September 27, 1941, Nikumaroro), the son of Gerald Hugh Gallagher (a doctor in the West African Medical Service) and Edith Gallagher, attended Stonyhurst College, Cambridge University (Downing College) and St. ... Sir Archibald Edward Garrod was an English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism. ... Richard Gordon (1921-) is a British author and doctor, most famous for a long series of comic novels on a medical theme starting with Doctor in the House, and their film, television and stage adaptations. ... William Gilbert WG Grace (July 18, 1848 – October 23, 1915) was an English cricketer who, by his extraordinary skills, made cricket perhaps the first modern spectator sport, and who developed most of the techniques of modern batting. ... Sir Malcolm Green was the lately vice-president faculty of medicine at Imperial College London and head of National Heart and Lung Institute. ... Major Greenwood (August 9, 1880 - October 5, 1949) English epidemiologist and statistician. ... Sir Wilfred Grenfell Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (February 28, 1865-October 9, 1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. ... Gordon Hamilton-Fairley (1930-1975), was one of the worlds leading cancer specialists. ... Ian Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn commonly known as Anthony Hamilton-Smith CBE (born 1 January 1942) is a British peer, doctor and politician. ... William Harvey William Harvey (April 1, 1578 – June 3, 1657) was an English medical doctor, who is credited with being the first to correctly describe, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart. ... Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton (15 January 1904 —22 August 1989) M.D., was an English administrator, doctor and television executive. ... James Hinton (1822 – December 16, 1875) was an English surgeon and author. ... Ebbe Curtis Hoff (born August 12, 1906 in Rexford, Kansas died February 17, 1985 in Richmond, Virginia) was chairman of the Department of Neurological Science at the Medical College of Virginia, founding Dean, School of Graduate Studies [1] and founding director of the Virginia Division of Substance Abuse. ... Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913), English surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, venereologist and pathologist, was born on July 23rd, 1828 at Selby, Yorkshire, England, his parents belonging to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). ... John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911), was an English neurologist; born at Providence, Green Hammerton, Yorkshire. ... Dr Bob Johnson is a psychiatrist and an outspoken opponent of electroconvulsive therapy and psychosurgery in general. ... Engraving of John Hunter (1728 – 1793) taken from the original portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, which is in the Royal College of Surgeons. ... Dr Donald McIntosh Johnson (17 February 1903 – 5 November 1978) was a British General practitioner, author and politician who was a Member of Parliament for nine years. ... Dr Santo Wayburn Jeger (20 May 1898–24 September 1953) was a British Labour politician. ... John L.H. Langdon-Down (November 18, 1828 - October 7, 1896) was an English physician best known for his work with mentally-ill children. ... William Lawrence is the name of several notable people: William Lawrence (35th Congress), US Representative from the 17th district of Ohio (this is not the William Lawrence who served from the 4th and 8th districts) William Lawrence (Ohio) (1819–99), US Representative from the 4th and 8th districts of Ohio... William Elford Leach FRS (February 2, 1790 - August 26, 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist. ... Sammy Lee (born Samuel Lee, 1958) is an expert [1] on in vitro fertilisation. ... Portrait of John Leech. ... William John Little was an English surgeon who, in the 1860s, identified spastic diplegia in children. ... David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (December 20, 1899 – March 1, 1981) was a Protestant Christian who headed much of the evangelical movement of the 20th century. ... Young Donald MacAlister - Senior Wrangler at Cambridge in 1877 Sir Donald MacAlister of Tarbert (1854-1934) physician, principal and vice-chancellor and, later, chancellor of the university of Glasgow Donald MacAlister was born in Perth, Scotland. ... Sir Morell Mackenzie (1837-1892), was a British physician, one of the pioneers of laryngology in the United Kingdom. ... William Marsden (Sheffield, 1796 - London, 1867) was an English surgeon whose main achievements are the founding of two presently well-known hospitals, the Royal Free Hospital (in 1828) and the Royal Marsden Hospital (in 1851). ... Alan John (Jock) Marshall (1911-1967) was an Australian author, academic and ornithologist. ... John Preston Maxwell (5 December 1871 – 25 July 1961), son of James Laidlaw Maxwell, was a Presbyterian obstetric missionary to China. ... Ian Renwick McWhinney, OC, FRCGP, FCFP, FRCP, (born October 11, 1926) is a Canadian physician and academic known as the Father of Family Medicine for his work in creating a family medicine program at the University of Western Ontario. ... Robert Morrison (Chinese: 馬禮遜; born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth, Northumberland; died August 1, 1834 in Canton; buried in the Old Protestant Cemetery in Macau) was a Scottish missionary, the first Protestant missionary in China. ... Alexander Muirhead (1848-1920) Born Saltoun, East Lothian, Scotland was an electrical engineer specialising in wireless telegraphy. ... Maurice Nicoll (July 19, 1884 - August 30, 1953). ... This article, Richard Owen, includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... James Parkinson (April 11, 1755 – December 21, 1824) was an English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist. ... Sir James Paget (1814-1899) was a British surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for Pagets disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. ... Pereira on a coin Jonathan Pereira (1804 - 1853) was a pharmacologist, born in London; author of the Elements of Materia Medica, a standard work. ... Percivall Pott (January 6, 1714 - December 22, 1788) - London surgeon. ... Photograph of W.H.R. Rivers William Halse Rivers Rivers (March 12, 1864 - 4 June 1922) was an English anthropologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work with shell-shocked soldiers during World War I. Rivers most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon. ... Ronald Ross Sir Ronald Ross (May 13, 1857 – September 16, 1932) was a Scottish physician. ... Sir William Scovell Savory, 1st Baronet (30 November 1826 - 4 March 1895) was a British surgeon. ... Jay Sean, (born Kamaljit Singh Jhooti on March 26, 1981 in Harlesden, London, United Kingdom; Punjabi: , ) is a British Asian Indian R&B singer. ... Sir Percy Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke KBE, CMG, MC, MD, FRCP, DPH, DTM&H, CStJ Barrister at Law; (1893–1976). ... Reginald Southey (1835-1899). ... Robert Vivian Storer (1900 - 1958), Australian venerealogist, sex educator, and writer, was born in Adelaide in 1900. ... George Spencer-Brown is described in [1] as a mathematician, consulting engineer, psychologist, educational consultant and practitioner, consulting psychotherapist, author, and poet. He is best known for his 1969 book Laws of Form. ... Frederick Howard Taylor (November 25, 1862 – August 15, 1946), Christian missionary to China, author, speaker and second son of James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (renamed as Overseas Missionary Fellowship, OMF International [1] in 1964 and based in Singapore), and Maria Jane Dyer. ... Herbert Hudson Taylor (April 3, 1861 – June 6, 1950), Christian missionary to China, author, speaker and eldest son of James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (renamed as Overseas Missionary Fellowship, OMF International [1] in 1964 and based in Singapore), and Maria Jane Dyer. ... Hudson & Maria Taylor in 1865 James Hudson Taylor 戴德生 (May 21, 1832 – June 3, 1905), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM) (now OMF International) who served there for 51 years, bringing over 800 missionaries to the country and directly resulting in... 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Fictional Alumni

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See also

In the United Kingdom, medical school generally refers to a department within a university which is involved in the education of future medical practitioners. ...

External links

  • School of Medicine and Dentistry
  • Queen Mary, University of London
  • Website for "Centre of the Cell"


 

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