Summary
There is an endless debate about how choose medical students. For years, the practice has been to those who have the highest A- levels. seems logical; after all, it is impossible measure common sense or get a for how caring or public- spirited young person might turn out to be these, along with ability, are the other characteristics of a good doctor). policy of accepting the brightest is being challenged with a project to select students with A- level grades and then coach hard while at university. The aim is social engineering, essentially to bring those from poorer backgrounds into medicine. We are told that the cost of coaching each of these less academically accomplished individuals is [pounds]190,000 a year.
Government sources assure us that the coached students, once at senior level, are just as good potential doctors as those who entered with superior, top grade A-levels. But then in many areas of life we have been learning just how truthful our leaders can be.See the full content of this document
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