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Medical Schools in United Kingdom

47 verified medical schools awarding a primary medical qualification in 44 cities.

Initial reconciliation completed. Every candidate from the official discovery sources has been verified, excluded, flagged as a duplicate or listed as unresolved. Not a guarantee of completeness.

Last reviewed October 13, 2026.

Medical education in United Kingdom

Medical qualification structure

  • The General Medical Council decides which organisations can award UK primary medical qualifications. Source: gmc-uk.org · verified October 13, 2026

Entry routes

  • New medical schools and programmes go through an extended period of GMC quality assurance before they are added to the list of awarding bodies. Source: gmc-uk.org · verified October 13, 2026

Registration and licensing context

  • Graduates of GMC-approved programmes can apply for provisional registration with the GMC. Source: qub.ac.uk · verified October 13, 2026

Verified medical schools

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How this country was researched

Research status
Initial reconciliation completed
Candidates in discovery sources
55
Verified operating or listed schools
47
Unresolved candidates
3
Excluded after checking
5

Discovery sources

Limitations: Candidates are the GMC awarding-body list and the GMC list of new schools under review as of 2026-10-13. University of St Andrews (pre-clinical BSc Medicine feeding partner schools) was not researched as a school. Ownership was not recorded. Some records rely on school pages without a stated intake year (status not_verified).

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