Investment bankers, oil riggers and seismic engineers are switching career paths to become the doctors of tomorrow's NHS, as Paul Wilkinson found out. Medical schools are leading a renaissance in doctor training built around new fast-track courses and more open entry qualifications.
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The United Kingdom's first fast track medical students have graduated from the University of Leicester's medical school. The 15 students, a pilot group who began the new course four years ago, were presented with their degrees on Friday 11 July at DeMontfort Hall, Leicester.
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Q&A: Fast-track doctors
More and more British universities are offering fast-track medicine courses. Supporters say they are an effective way of encouraging more people to become doctors. Critics say they are 'dumbed down' training. BBC News Online examines the four-year medicine courses.
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Medical training 'dumbed down'
A leading surgeon has claimed the welfare of patients is being put at risk because training given to medical students is being dumbed down.
Andrew Raftery, from the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), criticised new fast-track courses which he says fail to provide students with sufficient medical knowledge.
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'Why gamble with would-be doctors?'
Halle is a research scientist and a keen volunteer at her local hospital. So why was she - and hundreds of post-graduate applicants like her - refused an interview for medical school despite passing the selection test with flying colours?
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Medical school in admissions row
A medical school is coming under fire from would-be doctors who claim they were turned down for places at random.
Rejected applicants to the graduate entry scheme at Barts and The London medical school say they are angry they were turned down not through any lack of qualification or experience but because their "numbers did not come up".
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