Medicine visits

What this activity is

We offer the option of a morning or afternoon visit, which will include:

• a student chat show
• a Group Based Learning (GBL) demo
• Clinical Skills tours
• a pre-recorded welcome and curriculum talk
• information desks

Who can attend

Only prospective students can attend the student chat show, GBL demo and Clinical Skills tours.

Accompanying guests are welcome at the information desks and the pre-recorded welcome and curriculum talk, subject to space.

(Spaces on our Medicine shuttle bus service are also limited, and reserved for prospective students only.)

Book in advance

You must book this activity in advance through the Open Day registration form. Our Medicine visits usually fill up very quickly.

You will book either a morning or afternoon visit, which includes all of the listed activities.

Staff at the Medical School will allocate you to a group and guide you around your activities in a particular order.

Shuttle bus

A free Open Day shuttle bus service will run between the Central campus (Buccleuch Place, postcode EH8 9JS) and our Medicine visits at the Edinburgh BioQuarter / Royal Infirmary.

Pre-booking is required.

Spaces on this shuttle bus service are limited, and reserved for prospective students only, to prioritise getting students to their activities on time.

Arrive prior to your bus departure time in order to check in and board.

Public transport

If you do not get a space on our shuttle bus, are an accompanying guest of a student, or prefer to use public transport from elsewhere in the city, multiple public Lothian bus services serve the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Lothian Buses: journey planner

No parking

Do not travel to the Medical School by car, as parking at the Royal Infirmary / Edinburgh BioQuarter is for hospital staff, patients and their visitors.

Your waitlist status

We will email you if space becomes available. You can also check your status using the Medicine ticket link in your emails.

We strongly recommend that you do not join the waitlist for the alternative session time, as you will be placed at the bottom of the waitlist for the new time. It is not possible to be on both waitlists.

If a space doesn't become available

You can still take part in some activities at the Medical School:

• Visit the information desks
• Watch the pre-recorded curriculum and admissions talk
• Join a Student Chat Show, subject to space

You will not be able to attend a Group Based Learning session or a Clinical Skills tour, which will be for registered ticket holders only due to strict capacities.

Much of the teaching in the first two years of our Medicine course takes place at the Central campus so it will be relevant for you to see this area, particularly Teviot Place, Doorway 3 (Old Medical School Quad).

Online resources

Following the Open Day, the Medical School will send you a recording of the Medicine talk and other useful online resources so that you can find out about the course.