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The Magazine

Founded in 2015 by Rebecca MacKenzie and Sophie Bracke, the RUMS Review is a biannual publication serving the students, staff and alumni of University College London Medical School. We strive to inform, inspire and intrigue our readers with original interviews and content, including articles, perspectives, research and career reports.

RUMS

The Royal Free, University College and Middlesex Medical Students’ Association has a proud and illustrious past. Formed in the wake of the merger between the three constituent medical schools in 1998, it has since gone from strength to strength and now provides social events, sports teams, societies, welfare services and representation to the 1200 or so medical students at UCL Medical School.

UCL Medical School itself was formed over a number of years from the merger of three different institutions the Middlesex Hospital, University College Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital.

The Middlesex Hospital was opened in Fitzrovia in 1745 by Charles Bell and had its first cohort of medical students join in 1746. University College Hospital was opened in 1834 as the North London Hospital, with the purpose of providing the then newly opened University College London with a hospital to train medical students – the governors of the Middlesex Hospital had refused to share its facilities with UCL.

Our third constituent school was first known as The London School of Medicine for Women. It was established in 1874 by Sophia Jex-Blake as the first medical school in Britain to train women. In 1877 The Royal Free Hospital agreed to allow students from LSMW to complete their clinical studies there and by 1896 was renamed The London Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine for Women and became part of the University of London.