United Hospitals is the historical collective name of the medical schools of London. They are all part of the

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(UL) with the exception of

Imperial College School of Medicine Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM) is the undergraduate medical school of Imperial College London in England, and one of the United Hospitals. It is part of the college's Faculty of Medicine and was formed by the merger of several hist ...

which left in 2007. The original United Hospitals referred to

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and St Thomas's Hospital and their relationship prior to 1769. Since then the name has been adopted by the London medical schools. In addition to inter-collegiate UL competitions, which include all UL colleges, the United Hospitals are engaged in an active series of sporting, and even comedy events against each other, and also at times as a united team.

Members

The current United Hospitals are:

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is also distributed to the five members, with the editorial team being made up of students from each school. For the purposes of sporting events, the

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is included in the United Hospitals, as was – until the demise of both hospital and school in the early 1980s – the Royal Dental Hospital School of Dentistry. The five members also contribute to the

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project, sending medical students to deliver emergency life support skills training in schools. The original 13 United Hospitals of London were:

MedGroup

MedGroup is the collective body of Students' Union presidents and

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representatives from each of the five member medical schools. Monthly meetings ensure common workings and sharing of best-practice within the student bodies.. The committee is formed of six positions alongside the presidents of each medical schools students' union; chair, vice-chair, activities officer, education officer, welfare officer and communications officer. The chair is Christian Oldfield (ICSM) and the vice-chair is Ciaran O'Toole (ICSM).

Sports

Combined teams

United Hospitals RFC The United Hospitals Rugby Football Club represents the United Hospitals, five medical schools in London, each of whom have their own distinct rugby clubs but from whom are picked a select fifteen to compete for UHRFC. The club exists to encourag ...

United Hospitals Athletics Club The United Hospitals Athletics Club is a historic athletics club that used to host the annual United Hospitals athletics competition. Since the disbanding of the club, London Universities and Colleges Athletics has organised the competition within ...

United Hospitals Boat Club
* United Hospitals Cricket Club * United Hospitals Football Club * United Hospitals Hockey Club * United Hospitals Lawn Tennis Club Occasionally compete in National Association of Medics Sports

Competitions

References

External links

{{Medical Schools (United Kingdom) University of London Medical schools in London United Hospitals sports clubs