Swansea University College of Medicine is a medical school in the Swansea University campus with additional teaching centres located throughout South and West Wales, including Cefn Coed, Singleton Hospital and Morriston Hospital in Swansea, Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli, Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest and Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth. The College also has an extensive network of primary care teaching centres. The College offers a four- year graduate only entry medicine programme (MB BCh) and higher degree programmes, including PhD, MD, MCh and Masters degrees. The College conducts biomedical and healthcare research as one of its principal activities.
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The Swansea University College of Medicine was formed (as the School of Medicine) in 2001 as a teaching and academic centre in collaboration with the University of Wales College of Medicine (itself now part of Cardiff University). The school launched a 4 year fast track graduate entry programme in 2004 whereby students would spend an initial two years at Swansea University then complete the final two years of their degree at Cardiff University.[1]
In 2007, the Welsh Assembly Government announced that the school would offer full medical degrees to students whereby students can take a full four-year degree course at Swansea University.[2]
The school has a dedicated research centre, The Institute of Life Sciences, a £52 million purpose-built facility based at Swansea University's Singleton Park campus in Swansea, equipped with an IBM Blue-C supercomputer. A Centre for NanoHealth, the first of its kind in Europe is set to be developed at the Singleton Park Campus for research into NanoHealth technologies.[3] In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, 87% of staff in the school were assessed as producing research of international quality or above.[4]
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