Clinical Medicine
Magdalen offers College places to a few first-year clinical medical students. Application by the deadline of 4th January in the intended year of admission is essential. For further information see the Medical Sciences Division web pages on clinical study.
The College is usually able to accommodate new graduates for the first two years of their course. For clinical medicine students, however, it has been agreed to offer accommodation in the first and third years of their course instead, an arrangement which dovetails more readily with medical electives.
Magdalen offers assistance towards an elective period in the form of a travel grant normally to the value of £350 (in addition to a general travel fund of up to £350 per student), but has no earmarked scholarships.
The College has many traditional associations with medicine and the biological sciences. Sir Charles Sherrington was Professor of Physiology at Magdalen, and the Sherrington Society meets to discuss medical topics. John Young, who studies the nervous system, and the Nobel Laureates, Sir John Eccles and Sir Peter Medawar, were Tutors at Magdalen. The Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir John Bell, was for a long time a fellow at Magdalen, as is the current Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Gero Miesenböck, and Peter Ratcliffe, the Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine.
The College has one of the best science libraries in Oxford, and books required for the clinical medical course are kept in it.