Congratulations and welcome to ScotGEM. We hope you are excited about joining the ScotGEM programme, as well as St Andrews and Dundee Medical Schools.

Our team has been preparing for your arrival, and to helping and encouraging you along the path to becoming a doctor. That path is sometimes challenging but is varied and interesting. You will learn much about yourself as you develop as a medical professional. Being a doctor is a privilege and we aim to make your journey with ScotGEM a unique and rewarding experience.

As you will have seen on our website, the curriculum is exciting and innovative. We employ some cutting-edge medical education techniques and technologies amidst a dispersed and community facing course. Our goal is to work closely with you as a ‘community of learners’, to build on these foundations to produce highly skilled generalists prepared, and enthusiastic about, working in rural Scotland.

You will have a great opportunity to revisit university life in both St Andrews and Dundee. Both are truly special places. St Andrews is one of the oldest universities in the UK. It is small enough to be friendly, and large enough to provide the facilities and recreational opportunities of larger institutions. Dundee is renowned for offering a superb student experience in a dynamic city, currently enjoying a waterfront renaissance. Scotland becomes your oyster, and you will be living and studying in some of the most beautiful areas in our NHS partner boards of Highland, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife and Tayside.

We want to encourage you to take full advantage of the opportunities ScotGEM will bring you, not only to succeed in your studies, but also to enjoy the variety that St Andrews, Dundee and Scotland offer.

I look forward to meeting you and introducing our excellent team who are ready to guide you through your medical studies.

Dr Fiona Graham
Programme Director
Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine (ScotGEM)