Université Paris Cité (formerly Paris Descartes and Paris Diderot, merged in 2019) is France's premier health sciences university and the largest medical training institution in the country. Its Faculty of Health trains physicians across AP-HP hospitals including Necker-Enfants Malades (France's leading paediatric hospital), Cochin, Bichat-Claude Bernard, and Beaujon. The university's medical programme follows the French national curriculum: six years plus three to five years of specialist internat (residency).

Research excellence includes the Imagine Institute (world leader in genetic diseases), Institut Pasteur collaboration (infectious disease), INSERM units in cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and the Descartes Clinical Investigation Centre. Université Paris Cité ranks among the world's top 100 and is France's most internationally connected medical faculty. With over 63,000 students, it occupies multiple campuses across Paris's Left Bank and northern arrondissements.

For UK students with strong French, this represents access to Europe's largest and most diverse clinical training network. The Diplôme d'État de Docteur en Médecine is EU-recognised and GMC-registrable via standard international pathways.