[3] The school is located alongside Addenbrooke's Hospital and other institutions in multiple buildings across the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

[3] On the standard A100 course, students typically enter the clinical school on completion of three years of pre-clinical training.

[citation needed] Before 2017, approximately half of medical students left Cambridge after the pre-clinical course as there were not enough places on the clinical course for them all; common destinations included medical schools based in Oxford, London and Manchester.

From 2017, all medical students continue to study in Cambridge for the full six years provided they pass the pre-clinical component of the course.

[11] In 1842, George Paget, the famous physician, into his third year at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, pioneered bedside examinations.