- Title
- Graduate entry to medicine: widening academic and socio-demographic access
- Creator
- James, David; Feguson, Eamonn; Powis, David; Symonds, Ian; Yates, Janet
- Relation
- Medical Education Vol. 42, p. 294-300
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03006.x
- Publisher
- Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Objective: This study aimed to examine whether a graduate entry course widens access to medicine. Methods: We carried out a retrospective study at the University of Nottingham Medical School of sociodemographic and academic data collected by the Universities and Colleges Admission Service (UCAS). Study participants comprised all applicants to the 5-year (mainly school-leavers) and 4-year (graduates only) medical courses for admission in October 2003. Results: In 2002–03, there were 2392 applicants for the 5-year course and 1235 applicants for the 4-year course. Significantly, applicants for the 4-year course comprised more males, were more socio-economically deprived and had lower UCAS tariff point scores compared with applicants for the 5-year course. These differences were preserved in those students who eventually started on either of the 2 courses in October 2003 (254 and 94 students for the 5- and 4-year courses, respectively). Comparing entrants with non-entrants (mainly rejected students), those joining the 5-year course were younger, were less socioeconomically deprived, were more likely to be White and had higher UCAS tariff point scores than non-entrants, but there were no significant gender differences. Those joining the 4-year course were more likely to be White and had higher UCAS tariff point scores than non-entrants. By contrast with entrants to the 5-year course, entrants to the 4-year course were significantly older than non-entrants. Conclusions: Graduate entrants to medicine widen academic and socio-demographic diversity in the medical school student population.
- Subject
- medical undergraduate education; educational status; retrospective studies; school admission criteria; socio-economic factors
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41630
- Identifier
- uon:4903
- Identifier
- ISSN:0308-0110
- Language
- eng
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