Graduate entry medicine: high aspirations at birth
Yvonne H Carter and Ed Peile
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.7-2-143
Clin Med April 2007 Yvonne H Carter
Warwick Medical School
OBE MD FRCGP FMedSciRoles: Dean
Ed Peile
Institute of Clinical Education, Warwick Medical School
EdD FRCP FRCGP FRCPCHRoles: Head and Associate Dean (Teaching)
Abstract
Four-year fast-track courses for graduates started in the UK in 2000, and are now offered at 14 UK medical schools. Graduate entry medicine (GEM) started five years earlier in Australia, and of course in the USA it has been the norm for students to begin studying medicine after university graduation. This paper reviews the aspirations for GEM and looks at the early evidence on delivery against those aspirations. Particular reference is made to the experience at Warwick Medical School which was one of the two pioneers of GEM in the UK, has the largest GEM intake and continues to admit only graduates.
- diversity
- graduate entry medicine
- learning styles
- mature students
- medical workforce
- self-directed learning
- student support
- © 2007 Royal College of Physicians
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Graduate entry medicine
Yvonne H Carter, Ed Peile
Clinical Medicine Apr 2007, 7 (2) 143-147; DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.7-2-143
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