ucl Flashcards
why ucl
As a student of medicine at UCL you will be joining a prestigious medical school, part of the largest Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) in Europe.
You will be taught by those at the forefront of international research and cutting-edge practice in medical sciences and clinical medicine.
Our location in central London provides access to exciting clinical attachments in a range of settings.
how prestigious is ucl
As a student of medicine at UCL you will be joining a prestigious medical school, part of the largest Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) in Europe.
Six former students and staff have been awarded Nobel Prizes. Medical advances have included the discovery of adrenaline, the immune system, the hormone aldosterone and auto-immune disease.
what are SSCs
Students may choose Student Selected Components (SSCs) in years one, two and six and in the elective period in year six. SSCs allow students to pursue special interests and develop a range of generic skills. They include choices in science, research, the arts, and humanities and languages.
what clinical and research institutions are associated with the medical school
Associated with the Medical School are clinical and research institutions, including:
The Institute of Child Health (Great Ormond Street)
The Institute of Neurology (The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery)
The Ear Institute (The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital)
The Institute of Ophthalmology (Moorfields Eye Hospital).
what notable alumni from ucl are there
Among UCL notable alumni, are Anita Harding, neurologist who co-authored the first paper which identified pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutation in human disease,
Donald Jeffries a leading expert on HIV,
Bernard Ribeiro former President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2005–08),
Sydney Ringer, best known for inventing Ringer’s solution,
and Deborah Doniach, leading expert on auto-immune diseases
what year is BSc
year 3
what BSc options are there
A wide range of integrated BSc degree programmes are available, for example in: Global Health; Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering; Neuroscience; Orthopaedic Science; Paediatrics and Child Health; Pharmacology; Physiology; Surgical Sciences.
when is intergrated clinical care and what is it
Three-week introductory course in clinical methods
Three twelve-week integrated modules of clinical placements, each preceded by a related core teaching week.
The clinical attachments are largely, but not exclusively, spent at the three main University NHS Trusts and in the community.
The clinical attachments for all students address integrated clinical care and cover acute care and hospital admissions, hospital based care, outpatient care and community based care in medical, surgical and mental health domains.
The vertical modules include teaching and learning sessions and include a patient-based cancer patient pathway throughout the year.
history of ucl
UCL was the first university institution to be established in London, and the first in England to be entirely secular and to admit students regardless of their religion. UCL also makes the contested claims of being the third-oldest university in England and the first to admit women.
UCL academics discovered five of the naturally occurring noble gases, discovered hormones and invented the vacuum tube
research at ucl report
According to a ranking of universities produced by SCImago Research Group, UCL is ranked 12th in the world (and 1st in Europe) in terms of total research output.[180] According to data released in July 2008 by ISI Web of Knowledge, UCL is the 13th most-cited university in the world (and most-cited in Europe).
The report covered citations in 21 subject areas and the results revealed some of UCL’s key strengths, including: Clinical Medicine (1st outside North America); Immunology (2nd in Europe); Neuroscience & Behaviour (1st outside North America and 2nd in the world); Pharmacology & Toxicology (1st outside North America and 4th in the world); Psychiatry & Psychology (2nd outside North America); and Social Sciences, General (1st outside North America).
ucl alumni
UCL alumni include Mahatma Gandhi (leader of the Indian independence movement), Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the telephone)
Nobel Prizes have been awarded to at least 30 UCL academics and students (17 of which were in Physiology & Medicine)
sarah-jayne blakemore
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in Neuroscience at UCL.
Professor Blakemore studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford University (1993-1996) and then did her PhD (1996-2000) at the UCL Functional Imaging Lab under the supervision of Professors Chris Frith and Daniel Wolpert, investigating the self-monitoring in schizophrenia.
As of 2017 Blakemore’s research covers the development of social cognition and decision-making during human adolescence
uta frith
Professor Uta Frith is a German developmental psychologist working at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. She is best known for her research on autism spectrum disorders. She was one of the initiators of the study of Asperger’s Syndrome in the UK and her work on reading development, spelling and dyslexia has been highly influential.
Throughout her career she has been developing a neuro-cognitive approach to developmental disorders. In particular, she has investigated specific cognitive processes and their failure in autism and dyslexia. Her aim is to discover the underlying cognitive causes of these disorders and to link them to behavioural symptoms as well as to brain systems. She aims to make this research relevant to the education of people with development disorders and to contribute to a better quality of their everyday life.
what are uta friths ideas
Frith’s work on theory of mind in autism proposes the idea that people with autism have specific difficulties understanding other people’s beliefs and desires. Much of this work was carried out with Simon Baron-Cohen who was her PhD student. She has also suggested that individuals with autism have ‘weak central coherence’, and are better than typical individuals at processing details but worse at integrating information from many different sources.
