<P> There are thirty three medical schools in the United Kingdom that are recognised by the General Medical Council and where students can study for a medical degree . There are twenty - five such schools in England, five in Scotland, two in Wales and one in Northern Ireland . All but Warwick Medical School and Swansea Medical School offer undergraduate courses in medicine . The Bute Medical School (University of St Andrews) and Durham Medical School offer undergraduate pre-clinical courses only, with students proceeding to another medical school for clinical studies . Although Oxford University and Cambridge University offer both pre-clinical and clinical courses in medicine, students who study pre-clinical medicine at one of these universities may move to another university for clinical studies . At other universities students stay at the same university for both pre-clinical and clinical work . </P> <P> Medical education prior to the foundation of the first medical school in the United Kingdom at the University of Edinburgh in 1726 was most often based on apprenticeships and professors of medicine did very little if any training of students . Few students graduated as physicians during this period . </P>

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