The Division comprises over 2200 academics and staff, 800 graduate students and 900 undergraduates; about 350 NHS Clinicians and GPs contribute to our teaching activities. In total over 2500 individuals are involved in research.

Medical sciences research at Oxford has maintained its pre-eminent standing, as demonstrated by the results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). Analysis of the preliminary results published in December 2008 places Oxford medical sciences research as being of the highest quality in the UK in four separate medical science disciplines.

The Times Higher Education has analysed the original data provided by HEFCE and has published a league-table style analysis that ranks the quality of the research submitted to each Unit of Assessment (UoA). In this analysis, Oxford is ranked highest in the UoAs of

• Cardiovascular Medicine,
  
• Infection and Immunity,
  
• Primary Care & Other Community Based Clinical Subjects,
  
• Pre-clinical & Human Biological Sciences.
  

Oxford achieved a second place ranking in the UoAs of

• Psychology,
  
• Biochemistry,
  
• Other Laboratory Based Clinical Subjects.

An on-going capital programme of c £106 million is funding a series of prestigious buildings and research centres. A detailed review of our programmes and themes can be found in the research pages of this site.

In teaching, we have received high marks in Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Academic Reviews - most recently receiving a top score for our Clinical and Experimental Psychology courses. We have first place in The Guardian Education's University Guide 2008 tables for our courses in Physiology, in Medicine and in Psychology.

Head of the Division: Professor Alastair M Buchan DSc FMedSci

Associate Heads of Division: Prof. William James, Prof. Nick Rawlins, Prof. Rodney Phillips, Prof. David Paterson

Secretary of the Medical Sciences Division: Dr David Bryan.

Senior Assistant Registrars: Mr Chris Price, Mrs Phillipa O'Connor