Students in dark over medicine course entry requirements
An expert group, tasked by the Government to come up with alternative selection methods for the country’s medical schools, recommended earlier this year that those with at least 450 points and performance in a suitability test be considered.
The aim was to introduce revised entry methods from 2008, at the earliest, to relieve pressure on Leaving Certificate students who need top grades to qualify under the present system. The easiest medicine course to gain entry to this year was at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), where the equivalent of at least three A1s and three A2s in higher level subjects are required.
