Transferring between medical schools

Implications of Tomorrow's Doctors

Since the publication of Tomorrow's Doctors, medical schools have started to offer increasingly integrated curriculums.1 The traditional distinction between preclinical and clinical phases has become blurred, as clinical skills are now being taught in the old preclinical part of medical degrees. This has implications on the ease with which medical students are able to transfer between medical schools during their degrees. The unique nature of the courses offered by some medical schools has resulted in them not being able to accept students from other medical schools for the clinical phase.

Mary Lumsden, associate dean for medical admissions at the University of Glasgow says, “A student from a non-integrated course needs to be motivated to catch up on the clinical aspects. However, we have found that it works better than we originally expected, and students coming from elsewhere will bring something different with them as they …