Why apply to Green Templeton for clinical medicine?

Green Templeton offers a full and rich programme of clinical teaching and support which is highly regarded by our students. Reasons to choose GTC are covered in the following sections :

• Welfare in a Graduate College
• Active Common Room
• Teaching Programme
• Richard Doll Society
• Funding for Academic Activities
• Management and Leadership Training
• Networking
• Equipment and Book
• Feedback from finalists
• Alumni Community
• Admissions

Welfare in a Graduate College

Co-Chair Giada Welcoming Attendees

Green Templeton is a graduate college with over 650 students from all over the world. They study a broad range of subjects including management, medicine and its allied sciences, history of medicine, social policy, global health, environmental change, public policy, ethics and education, anthropology, and zoology. This provides a wonderful platform for exchange of thoughts and development of ideas for collaboration. Furthermore, the cultural diversity and inquisitive nature of our students and Fellows naturally fosters a shared concern for human welfare. An example of this is the annual ‘Human Welfare Conference’ organised by the students which attracts distinguished speakers and delegates from many academic disciplines.

Active Common Room

The Graduate Common Room (GCR) is a welcoming hive of activity for all things associated with culture and community. It is an inclusive environment with no hierarchy between students and Fellows of the college. The GCR host numerous sporting (we have particular success in rowing and football) and social events including family-friendly garden parties, Sunday brunches, wine society, book club, and the annual Summer Ball. The GCR is also extremely receptive to those who wish to form novel societies or organise new events and has initiatives to help support this.

Teaching Programme

The clinical medicine teaching programme offers multiple learning opportunities for students to both build their practical proficiency as a clinician and their confidence in becoming a competent Foundation Doctor. The programme endeavours to foster an inclusive and collaborative working environment in which to study in. Tutors are approachable and encourage friendly academic debate with an emphasis on asking questions.

In addition to teaching centred around the core medical curriculum, there are numerous enrichment activities available to the student community (for example, additional skills workshops, management and leadership courses, attendances to various conferences held at GTC with world-renowned speakers, to name but a few).

Green Templeton students are regularly awarded prizes by the Medical Sciences Division for recognition of their academic excellence. Read more about the specifics of our teaching programme

Richard Doll Society

This is the thriving student-led college medical society and is open to all members of college past and present. The RDS defines its activities within five main domains: educational enrichment, outreach, social and networking, mentoring and alumni. Through this structure, the committee organises frequent social gatherings and formal dinners, annual conferences and other speaker events, various skills workshops, and many more activities which appeal to the wider academic community. Read more about the exciting opportunities the RDS has to offer

Funding for Academic Activities

Green Templeton actively encourage students to work on projects and present nationally or internationally with an increasing number of students being ‘matched’ to a senior member of GTC for mentorship in their chosen field of interest. Thus, the college offers a range of financial support for medical students which includes but is not limited to:

• Learning Grants – £1,500 in total (£250 per year in Year 4 and 5, and up to £1000 in Year 6)
• Competitive funding for conferences and field work – up to £600
• Entrance Bursary for graduate-entry medics – £1,000 in Year 1 to assist with the cost of fees.

Management and Leadership Training

The Management in Medicine programme is a unique asset which supports clinical students, alongside others, to learn management and leadership skills (for both individual and team-based effectiveness and efficiency). It also aims to increase the understanding around health care delivery. These skills make a huge difference both in clinical practice and research teams and are increasingly important for doctors (however, they are not incorporated yet into the clinical medicine curriculum).

The Management in Medicine scheme facilitates opportunities for shadowing a senior manager and/or for working on a ‘live’ service improvement project. It also runs a rolling programme of seminars and workshops which are held outside office hours to minimise disruption to medical school commitments. More information on the Management in Medicine programme

Networking

The major advantage of Green Templeton is that it holds a large community of talented clinicians and scientists through its 100 clinical medical students and numerous medically-qualified Fellows, Teaching Associates, Common Room Members and Alumni. This means it is highly likely you would be able to establish contacts with those who work in your field of interest who are willing to advise on a project, provide careers advice, and point you in the direction of useful elective contacts.

Equipment and Books

At the beginning of clinical school, students at Green Templeton receive a high-quality stethoscope and have access to borrow an ophthalmoscope/otoscope whenever needed.

The college also has excellent library facilities and aims to stock enough copies of all core texts to satisfy demand. If the library is missing a core textbook it may be requested.

Feedback from 2025 finalists

‘The teaching programme at GTC was great, both in frequency and content, and it made me feel a lot more confident about going into finals and going into F1.’

‘The incredibly strong teaching and pastoral/career support from the Doll Fellows. I would wholeheartedly recommend GTC to anyone wanting to study medicine.’

‘I really appreciated the effort the Doll Fellows went to organising events and teaching. I enjoyed the large medical community and being treated much more like an adult than I was in undergrad.’

‘The bedside teaching was amazing!’

‘I really valued the Tuesday teaching offered by GTC – both because this was a brilliant supplement to the course and also because it was a nice opportunity to catch up with friends in college.’

Alumni Community

In joining Green Templeton you become part of a large and welcoming medical alumni community for life. GTC has over 1,200 contactable medical alumni located all over the world!

Please visit the:

• Medical Alumni Network to connect with alumni for career advice or research and shadowing opportunities
• Richard Doll Society where alumni are welcome to attend all events.

Admissions

Green Templeton has up to 32 places available every year for the standard clinical medicine course (Years 4-6) and 4 places available for the graduate-entry medics. We are usually able to accept between 80-90% of applicants who rank our college as first choice.

Please contact Dr Radhika Chadha or Dr Sheila Lumley who co-direct the clinical medical programme for any queries or comments. More about the Joan and Richard Doll Fellows