Southampton Medical School

University of Southampton School of Medicine

The Life Sciences Building, base for the faculty of medicine at Highfield Campus
Type	Medical school
Established	1971
Dean	Professor Iain Cameron
Location	Southampton, England
Campus	Highfield Campus Southampton General Hospital
Affiliations	University of Southampton
Website	http://www.southampton.ac.uk/medicine/

Coordinates: 50°55′59″N 1°26′06″W / 50.933°N 1.435°W / 50.933; -1.435

Highfield Campus

University of Southampton School of Medicine is a medical school in England. It is part of the University of Southampton with a site at Southampton General Hospital, offering four different undergraduate medical programmes, all leading to the award of a medical degree, styled BMBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery).

The school was formed following the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Medical Education (1965-68); their report, popularly known as the Todd Report, was issued in 1968. The Commission estimated that by 1994, the United Kingdom would need to train more than 4500 doctors a year and was of the opinion that this would need to be achieved by both increasing the numbers of medical students at existing medical schools, and by establishing a number of new medical schools. The report recommended that new medical schools should be immediately established at the Universities of Nottingham, Leicester and Southampton. University of Southampton School of Medicine was opened in 1971. Southampton pioneered the integration of patient contact into the early years of the medical curriculum, something which was very unusual when the medical school opened.