737. In 2021 points required for undergraduate entry into UCD Medicine rose from 737 to 743, tied with Trinity for the highest requirement. Likewise in 2022, UCD once again was tied with Trinity for highest required CAO points at 743, to study medicine in Ireland. In the subject listed as "Medicine", the 2022 QS World University Rankings gave University College Dublin a ranking of 151–200. The US News 2022 "Best Global Universities for Clinical Medicine" rankings gave UCD a position of 228 among 1,000 schools scored, the highest among Irish schools. For American applicants who wish to enter the four-year graduate entry medical program, the minimum GPA required from a completed undergraduate degree program is 3.0 and the MCAT must be a 503 or higher. Global graduate destinations UCD students have secured residencies at (but not limited to) the following training programmes: Baylor College of Medicine – Texas, US Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Massachusetts, US Cleveland Clinic – Ohio, US Columbia University Irving Medical Center – New York, US Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center – New Hampshire, US Emory University Hospital – Atlanta, US Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, US Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School – Boston, Massachusetts, US Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science – Minnesota, US McMaster University Medical School – Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Monash Health – Melbourne, Australia NYU Langone Health – New York, US Pennsylvania Hospital, University of Pennsylvania Health System – Philadelphia, US Stanford International Residency Training Programme – Stanford, California Singapore General Hospital – Singapore University of British Columbia – Vancouver, Canada University of Melbourne – Melbourne, Australia University of Toronto – Toronto, Canada Westmead Hospital – Sydney, NSW, Australia Yale New Haven Hospital – Connecticut, US Notable alumni Notable UCD alumni and former students of the School of Medicine include: Peter Boylan – Obstetrician, former master of the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin Hugh Brady – President of UCD, President of Imperial College London Barry Bresnihan – Rheumatologist, Irish rugby international, British and Irish Lion Mark English – 800 m bronze medalist at the 2014 European Athletics Championships Garret A. FitzGerald – Professor of translational medicine and Therapeutics and chair of the department of pharmacology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. His work contributed substantially to the development of low-dose aspirin to prevent heart attacks and strokes. His work showing that selective COX-2 inhibitors