[1] Swansea University Medical School employs four core activities; Learning and Teaching, Research, Enterprise and Innovation and collaboration with the NHS.

[2] In January 2017, the British Heart Foundation relocated to Swansea University Medical School and housed itself in the Institute of Life Science.

[3] In March, the Medical School announced a new partnership with Pfizer which involves the pharmaceutical company locating itself at the university's Bay Campus.

Following Welsh political devolution in the 1990s, fresh calls were made to establish a medical school to serve the people of southwest Wales.

[13] The school currently employs 4 main research themes Biomarkers & Genes, Devices, Microbes & Immunity Patient & Population Healthy.

[citation needed] Swansea University Medical School provides one of a small number of Graduate Entry Medicine programmes currently available in the UK.

[15] In March 2017, the MBBCh Graduate Entry Medicine degree was announced as featuring in the QS World University Rankings.

The medical school has ambitious plans to work closely with Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board and Hywel Dda to transform home and hospital care across the region, including the continued investment in Singleton and Morriston Hospitals, and the development of a multi-million pound Medi-Park[23]