Leicester Medical School

[1] Leicester medical school offers a MBChB degree course in medicine as an undergraduate five-year course.

It recommended the creation of new medical schools at the Universities of Nottingham, Southampton and Leicester.

[13] Professor Stewart Petersen said that the reason for this rebuild was "We want to attract the best medical students.

[15] The University of Leicester Medical School has a Centre for Empathic Healthcare who develop and deliver an evidence-based and unique empathy-focused curriculum that runs throughout all five years of medical school.

The empathy curriculum is formally assessed and includes advanced, evidence-based communication skills training, getting patients into the lecture theatre during the teaching of pathophysiology, having students "walk a mile" in patients' shoes, and using creative reflection (including narrative medicine and medical humanities).