Fact Or Fiction?

This forum made possible through the generous support of SDN members, donors, and sponsors. Thank you.

IveGotQuestions

Full Member
10+ Year Member
15+ Year Member
Joined
Aug 6, 2007
Messages
37
Reaction score
0
Is it true that every year in the UK and Ireland some students are kicked out for not being in the top 3/4 or so of the class? Is there always competition to maintain your seat in Medicine? Or are you guaranteed to stay in the program once you are in? (I get that if you aren't passing, etc or doing badly you might get kicked out, but is it as intense as I am inquiring?)
 
Fiction. Only 1 or 2 people fail and it's always for lack of doing any work/never showing up for class.

I have heard it is like you said in France though but I don't know. Someone told me that only 3/4 of the class goes on every year there but I could be spreading another rumor!
 
I just came upon a website that said that there WERE selective years! Can someone else confirm for or against that please?
 
This doesn't happen in Ireland.

You may fail an individual course, and be required to resit the exam in the summer for that course. You need to pass courses of a year to go onto the next year.

If you miss a year, then it is repeated as above.

Therefore in total, there are 4 strikes at a course (year-end exam, resit exam, repeat the year exam, repeat the year resit exam).

If you can't get it in 4 tries, then it is going home time. I have only see this happen once and it was intentional by a student who didn't want to be in medical school (family forced him to go to medical school, he wanted to be an engineer).

....

A different story altogether though is the Irish pathway after graduation for those that chose to try for post-grad training in Ireland. There, there is indeed a scarcity of positions as one climbs the ladder of increasingly higer ranked posts (from intern to SHO, to registrar, to senior/specialist registrar, to consultant). If you finish medicine in Ireland and then do post-grad in US/Canada, then this is not an issue that concerns you.
 
Thanks, I hope I will be able to do a post-grad in Canada.
 
Top