Medical Sciences

Overview

You can work in a wide range of areas – our current students are researching topics as diverse as treatment of lower limb varicose veins, HIV microbicides, and outcomes of bariatric surgery. Throughout your Medical Sciences programme from University of York, you will be supervised by a leading expert in the field and supported by a Thesis Advisory Panel.

An MD project addresses issues of diagnosis or management in a clinical environment. If you have an idea for a research project that doesn't address these areas, you should consider doing a PhD instead.

You will register at the university where your principal supervisor works, and you will have access to facilities and support at both our parent universities – Hull and York. All of our degrees are awarded by both the University of Hull and University of York.

Your principal academic supervisor

Before making your MD application, you need to find a member of our academic staff to supervise your research project. Your principal academic supervisor must be employed by either the University of York or the University of Hull. Clinical staff solely employed by the NHS, or Hull York Medical School, are unable to be your principal academic supervisor, though they can act as co-supervisors.

To find your principal academic supervisor, visit our research pages and browse the academic staff pages. Once you find an academic staff whose research specialism matches your interest and proposal, contact them directly to determine if your proposal can be supported.