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Originally Posted by levantine
I don't really like the idea of there being so much difference in the tests required to get into Oxbridge medical schools and those required to get into all other medical schools.... it promotes the residues of an attitude we're trying to bring down. I know this disparity already exists due to the tests they currently use such as BMAT, but the GAMSAT is a considerable step up from all of those.
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I said I thought the BMAT should be used by all med schools, but If oxford and cambridge want to set their own harder tests, that is fine. Every uni is entitled to its own selection policies.
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Originally Posted by levantine
I definitely don't think the UKCAT is the way to go.
I have this personal belief that the UKCAT discriminates against a certain kind of intelligence and personality that have historically played great roles in medicine. I worry what the average doctor may be like 30 years on from (the hopefully unlikely event of) using UKCAT as the strict gold standard of getting into medicine.
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I agree with all that. BMAT for all school leavers, GAMSAT for all grads.
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Originally Posted by Arch_Angel
Well....it works....we could do with our own version, but the GAMSAT is by far better regulated and put together than that dreadful UKCAT.
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I cant help thinking that after every sitting of the Graduate British Medical School Admissions Test there would be complaints, results invalidated, public enquiries, court battles and one big shambles.
/ouchy
