UL signals clear plans for graduate-only medical school

THE head of the University of Limerick has put down a clear marker for the Minister for Education as her department draws up plans for a new graduate-only school of medicine.

UL insists the new faculty should be located on a greenfield site at the Limerick campus and not attached to the existing schools of medicine in Dublin, Cork or Galway.

The new medical school will be open to candidates who already hold a third-level degree. It is being established to attract more mature students into medicine in order to stem the high drop out rate in the profession.