KCL: King's Medical School

So I really want to go to King's next year.

Here are some photos of Guy's Campus, King's College London.








This is what King's have on their website:
         
Key facts

• Eleven internationally renowned research divisions in the disciplines of asthma and allergy, cancer studies, cardiovascular, diabetes and nutrition, genetics and molecular medicine, health and social care research, imaging sciences and biomedical engineering, immunology and infectious diseases, palliative care, transplantation and women’s health
• 12 externally awarded and funded specialist centres including two prestigious MRC Centres in transplantation and asthma
• University partner of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre
• Co-located with Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals
• 450 academic staff including 315 principal investigators
• £49 million research income 
• 5 entry routes to the MBBS programme, the most of any UK medical school
• 97% PhD completion rate – the highest in the UK
• 95% graduate employment rate (HESA 2009)
• 12 twinned universities across the globe supporting student exchanges.

History:

The history of King's is really interesting, as a part of King's med-view scheme, I got to have a look around the place where the first surgery at St Thomas' Hospital took place. Have a look at this whacky painting:



King's write on their website:


King’s College London was founded in 1829 as a university college in the tradition of the Church of England. When the University of London was established in 1836, King’s became one of its founding colleges and included a medicine department from the beginning. However, as a result of mergers, including those with the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, King’s has a cumulative history of contributions to biomedicine over several centuries, including the pioneering contributions of staff and former students.

Key dates

1107 The Augustinian priory of St Mary Overie is established.

1561 First record of medical instruction at St Thomas’ Hospital.

1656 St Thomas’ Physician Thomas Wharton writes Adenographia, the first known contribution to the scientific understanding of the body from this institution.

1726 The first patients are admitted to the new Guy’s Hospital, named after founder and benefactor Thomas Guy.

1815 Poet John Keats undertakes training at Guy’s Hospital as an apothecary.

1825 James Blundell reports in the Lancet his studies on the first human to human blood transfusions.

1839 King’s College Hospital is founded in Portugal Street in London, later to reopen at its present site in Denmark Hill.

1948 On the creation of the NHS, the medical schools of Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ become independent of the hospitals.

1953 Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin publish in Nature their structural studies of DNA.

1983 The United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’ (UMDS) are formed.

1988 Sir James Black wins the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

1998 UMDS merges with King’s College London. Medical teaching and research is organised within the new King’s College London School of Medicine.

2008 King’s College London becomes the university partner of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre with its NHS partners, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

I typed up a whole load of university entry requirements in my last post, entry requirements for King's should be on there.

The best thing about King's is probably that they offer a standard entry into medicine as well as a foundation year entry.

King's ask for AAA for the standard entry and AAA-BBB for their foundation year course.

But yeah, looks like a great place to study medicine, I reaaaaally wanna go :)

Amini <3