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Hepatitis B and medical student admission

This week the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has issued guidelines for universities on the fitness of students to practise medicine and dentistry in relation to hepatitis B virus. The guidelines recommend that all applicants for medical and dental courses should be screened for the virus and antibody before entry to medical and dental schools and be immunised where necessary. Students accepted for such courses will have to provide certificates of immunisation and immunity on registration. Students who are virus carriers and infectious will be excluded from the clinical stages of their courses. They will be counselled and advised on the implications for their future careers and on transfers to appropriate alternative courses.²

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