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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.
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:
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Competing interests: No competing interests