Leeds School of Medicine

Leeds School of Medicine

The Worsley building from afar
Type	medical school
Established	1831
Parent institution	University of Leeds
Dean	Professor Paul Stewart
Location	Leeds, England
Website	http://www.leeds.ac.uk/medicine

Coordinates: 53°48′04″N 1°33′07″W / 53.801°N 1.552°W / 53.801; -1.552

Leeds School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The School of Medicine was founded in 1831, before the Yorkshire College which became the university, and now forms part of the university's Faculty of Medicine and Health. It is located at the southern end of the campus in the Worsley Building, which also houses the Leeds Dental Institute. The School of Medicine is linked with the two major hospitals for clinical teaching: the Leeds General Infirmary and St James's University Hospital, both run by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. As of 2008^[update] the medical school accepts some 238 home students and a further 20 from overseas per year.

On 6 June 1831 six physicians and surgeons set up the Leeds medical school with the aim:

The medical school admitted its first students in October of that year. It was one of ten provincial medical schools founded in the ten years between 1824-1834.

The founders were:

The first premises were the Leeds Public Dispensary on North Street in the town but in 1834 the school was moved to new premises at 1 East Parade. In 1979, it moved to its current location in the Worsley Building.