University of Southampton School of Medicine is a Medical school in England. It is part of the University of Southampton and it offers four different undergraduate medical programmes, all leading to the award of a medical degree, styled BMBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery). The school was formed following the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Medical Education (1965-68) (who issued their report, popularly known as the Todd Report in 1968). The Commission estimated that by 1994, we would need to train more than 4500 doctors a year in the United Kingdom and that this would need to be achieved by both increasing the numbers of medical students at existing medical schools, and by establishing a number of new medical schools. The report recommended that new medical schools should be immediately established at the Universities of Nottingham, Leicester and Southampton. University of Southampton School of Medicine was opened in 1971. Southampton pioneered the integration of patient contact into the early years of the medical curriculum, something which was very unusual when the medical school opened.