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The University of Edinburgh: Doctor of Medicine

Institution The University of Edinburgh View institution profile
Department Edinburgh Medical School
Web https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying
Study type Research

Summary

The MD is a higher degree undertaken by clinically qualified staff normally during their postgraduate medical training. Applicants must be working in the South East of Scotland, either employed as a member of staff of the University of Edinburgh, or as an NHS employee, or as a research worker employed or self-financed or grant-funded, in the University of Edinburgh or an associated institution or an NHS establishment.

A thesis for the degree of MD must deal with one or more of the subjects of study in the curriculum for the degrees of MBChB or with subjects arising directly from contemporary medical practice.

We have interests in:

  • Cancer

  • Cardiovascular

  • Clinical Brain Sciences

  • Cognitive and Neural systems

  • Genetics

  • Infectious Diseases

  • Inflammation

  • Medical Education

  • Molecular Medicine

  • Neuroscience

  • Population Health Sciences

  • Regenerative Medicine

  • Reproductive Health

MD

University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await.

The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and placed 27th in the 2025 QS World University Rankings.

Our position as one of Britain’s leading research universities was reaffirmed by the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, ranked 4th in the UK for research power (Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions), with 90% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.

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