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Apology

Peter McCrorie   (31 January 2003)

Apology 31 January 2003
Peter McCrorie, Director of the MBBS Graduate Entry Programme St George's Hospital Medical School KT3 5BX Send response to journal: Re: Apology	In my article on graduate students, I stated that patients would be better served by doctors entering medical school after the age of 22. This offended a very large number of students (and graduates) who entered medical school at the age of 18, straight from school. I was making a case for graduate entry to medicine, and I do genuinely think that students who enter medical school at 22 or over will make good doctors, but it is quite wrong of me to imply that graduates from school-leaver programmes will not make good doctors - of course they will. I apologise to anyone I have offended, particularly those students at St George's on the 5-year school- leaver programme. Competing interests:   None declared