Medicine: No need for Leaving Certs to change subject

STUDENTS in fifth year will not need to change their Leaving Certificate subject choices to meet new entry requirements for medicine being introduced in 2009, Education Minister Mary Hanafin has insisted.

She has yet to announce the details of the scheme designed to ease pressure on school leavers seeking limited places for undergraduate medical school places.

The minimum Leaving Cert points required for first round entry to any of the five medicine courses last month was 570 out of 600.