BMJ 2000;321:1136-1138 ( 4 November )

Education and debate

Broadening access to undergraduate medical education

Based on a presentation from the Millennium Festival of Medicine

Carole Angel, director of teaching quality ^a, Allan Johnson, head of recruitment and admissions ^b. 

^a University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield S10 2RX, ^b Recruitment and Admissions Office, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7QX

Correspondence to: C Angel C.A.Angel@sheffield.ac.uk

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In their statement of principles, the Council of Heads of Medical Schools indicate that the purpose of a medical education is to graduate individuals well fitted to meet the present and future needs of society for medical care.¹ They go on to state that this can be achieved, at least in part, if the social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds of graduates reflect broadly the diversity of the patient population. It seems that this principle is not currently met by medical schools in the United Kingdom. In a study commissioned by the Council of Heads of Medical Schools in 1998, McManus found that certain groups (students from ethnic minorities, sixth form colleges or further education institutions, and lower socioeconomic groups) were disadvantaged when seeking admission to medical school.² As a result, the council devised an action plan in which medical schools were required to draw up policies relating to equal opportunities . . . [Full text of this article]

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