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. 2007 Nov 24;335(7629):1072.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39283.476725.BE.

Should all medical students be graduates first? Yes

Ed Peile  1
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Should all medical students be graduates first? Yes

Ed Peile. BMJ. .

Abstract

Most people enter medical college straight from school. Ed Peile argues that changing to a single system of graduate entry medical schools would provide the diverse multiskilled workforce needed for the future, but Charles George thinks that there is insufficient evidence to make this a criterion of entry

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared. EP is responsible for the graduate entry fast track course at Warwick Medical School.

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