"Advanced Medicine"

The doctors at International Centre for Emergency Medicine have been appointed as the Advanced Medicine advisors to the James Bond movies.

The team is an integral part of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, which is a major international teaching and research hospital, and the clinical resource of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Aberdeen, where over 13,000 students from 117 different countries study 630 separate degree programs. It is Europe’s largest single site hospital complex with over 2,000 beds and home to the leading international diving and hyperbaric medical centre.

Medicine has been taught in Aberdeen for over 500 years. The Regis Chair of Medicine of the University Medical School was endowed in 1497 by King James IV of Scotland and is the first chair of medicine to be established in the world. The Faculty is staffed by over 300 professors and senior consultants, 2,250 doctors and 4,000 nurses and supports over 800 medical students.

The acute hospital complex provides a complete range of medical and clinical specialties and employs over 7,000 people. Over 300 medical scientists work in a £60 million Institute of Medical Research, which includes ‘state of the art’ investigative and diagnostic equipment, and 5 Nobel prizes have been awarded to researchers in Aberdeen. Medical scientists here have led such internationally significant medical discoveries like insulin and the endorphins streptococcus bacterium, the invention of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. It is, one of the very few places in the world where clinical practice, teaching and research occur on the same site – creating a world-leading centre of excellence.