Widening participation in medicine

doi:10.1136/bmj.39508.606157.BE

BMJ 2008;336:1111-1113 (17 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.39508.606157.BE

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Widening participation in medicine

Pamela B Garlick, senior lecturer in medical education and course director, extended medical degree programme¹, Gavin Brown, lecturer in human geography²

¹ King’s College London, London SE1 1UL , ² University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH

Correspondence to: P B Garlick pamela.garlick@kcl.ac.uk

The extended medical degree programme at King’s CollegeLondon shows that widening participation in medicine can besuccessful, but requires appreciable extra commitment by academicstaff

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Today’s prevailing view is that tomorrow’s doctorsshould reflect the social and ethnic diversity of the countriesin which they practise. To this end, initiatives to widen participationhave been started in medical schools in several countries. Someof these initiatives include a commitment by students to returnto their "area of origin" for a specified number of years afterqualifying, but most have no such restrictions.¹ Widening theparticipation of previously under-represented groups is nota straightforward process, as is highlighted by the Schwartzreport.² The widening participation initiative at the King’sCollege London School of Medicine began in 2001. Our remit wasto enable bright students from low achieving state schools ininner London to become doctors. Students from the first cohortgraduated in June 2007.

In 2001, the first year of the extended medical degree programme(EMDP), 10 extra student places were allocated by the HigherEducation . . . [Full text of this article]

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