Abstract
Admission of Sri Lankan students for medical education: time to review
Highlights
In this submission we discuss aspects of selection of students to medical schools and basic qualifications that students should possess to follow medical courses outside Sri Lanka with the hope of practicing medicine in Sri Lanka
Undergraduate medical education in Sri Lanka began in the 19th century with a short-lived medical school in Manipay (1848) and the Ceylon Medical College in 1870
In practice, 3 S denotes only the eligibility for application since the selection of students for admission to a government medical faculty for a given academic year is based on the rank order of average Z-scores obtained by the candidates at the GCE Advanced Level Examination held in the related year, and released by the
Summary
In practice, 3 S denotes only the eligibility for application since the selection of students for admission to a government medical faculty for a given academic year is based on the rank order of average Z-scores obtained by the candidates at the GCE Advanced Level Examination held in the related year, and released by the. In 2014, 1,255 of the 7,000 (one of five) who were selected for university admissions from the Biology stream entered government medical faculties Comparing these figures with the UK system, which historically has many similarities with the Sri Lankan system, the minimum entry criteria in the standard medical school is 3 As (as opposed to 3 Ss in the Sri Lankan system). For some highranking universities like Oxford, it could be one of 17
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