The Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine is a partnership between the West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust, the University of Cambridge, six local General Practices and three University of Cambridge Colleges Hughes Hall, Lucy Cavendish College (women only) and Wolfson College.

The four year course is for 20 graduates of any discipline.

'The clinical base is at the West Suffolk Hospital, where a multi-disciplinary Education Centre has been built. This opened in February 2003 and provides students and other hospital staff with a modern learning facility.

The course started on 24 September 2001 when the first students were admitted to one of the three Colleges: Hughes Hall, Lucy Cavendish College or Wolfson College. The students return regularly to West Suffolk throughout the course to gain practical experience and clinical teaching. The course also involves six local general practices, so that students can see patients being cared for from primary care onwards, and thus appreciate the contribution of all partners to the health care of patients.

The Course Director is West Suffolk Hospital consultant Dr Paul Siklos who is also Associate Clinical Dean at the University of Cambridge. A West Suffolk Consultant has been elected to a Fellowship at each of the three Cambridge Colleges as a Graduate Course Tutor.

The course was launched by Professor Sir Alec Broers, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge when he came to unveil a plaque to mark this milestone in medical education.

Further information about the course can be found on the Cambridge Clinical School of Medicine website.

Launch of the Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine. In the photograph from right to left - Dr Paul Siklos, Director of Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine and Associate Clinical Dean at the School of Clinical Medicine; the Vice Chancellor; Dr Anna Abulafia, Chair of the Graduate Colleges Sub Group and Senior Tutor Lucy Cavendish College; Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley, Designer of the commemorative slate; Mrs Veronica Worrall, Chairman of the West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust; Miss Johanna Finn, Chief Executive of the West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust (at the time when the course started); Dr Chris Allen, Clinical Dean of the School of Clinical Medicine; and Professor Sir Keith Peters, Regius Professor of Physic.

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Last Modified: June 2005