The General Board give notice that, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board or other authority concerned, the regulations for certain University examinations have been amended as follows:
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 431 and Reporter, 2003-04, p. 1065)
The regulations have been amended following the decision by the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine to revise the arrangements for granting exemption to pre-clinical students from subjects in the Second M.B. Examination and for unsuccessful candidates to resit the Examination.
Regulation 11.
By amending the regulation so as to read:
11. A candidate for the Second M.B. Examination shall be required to have diligently attended approved courses of instruction appropriate to the subject or subjects to be offered in the examination. Approved courses recognized for this purpose shall be listed in Schedule C [Schedule B to the New Curriculum Regulations] to these regulations; the Faculty Board shall have power to amend this Schedule from time to time as they think fit. The Faculty Board shall have authority to approve for this purpose additional courses offered by a university other than Cambridge, or, in exceptional circumstances, to waive the requirement. The Second M.B. Examination may be taken by an unmatriculated student who has satisfied this requirement and who is certified on behalf of a College to the Registrary to be a bona fide candidate for admission to the College.
No student whose name does not appear on the Medical Students Register shall be a candidate for any subject of the Second M.B. Examination.
Regulation 12.
By deleting this regulation, renumbering subsequent regulations, and amending any cross-references accordingly.
Regulation 13 (renumbered 12).
By amending the regulation so as to read:
12. (a) The Faculty Board shall have power to grant exemption from any subject or subjects of the Second M.B. Examination to a candidate for admission as a clinical student from a university other than Cambridge, provided that the student has satisfied the conditions of Regulation 11 and has attained a satisfactory standard, as prescribed by the Faculty Board, in corresponding subjects taken in an examination for a degree of a university other than Cambridge.
(b) The Faculty Board shall inform the Registrary as early as possible of the names of those candidates who have been granted exemption from any subject or subjects of the Second M.B. Examination and who have satisfied the requirements in Regulation 12(a). The Registrary shall thereupon post a list of the names outside the Senate-House.
Regulation 14 (renumbered 13).
By amending the regulation so as to read:
13. A candidate who is unsuccessful in the examination in any subject of the Second M.B. Examination shall be eligible for re-examination, provided that, except by special permission of the Faculty Board granted in exceptional circumstances,
| (a) | a student who fails to satisfy the Examiners in any subject other than PFP shall not be a candidate for re-examination in that subject later than nine months after his or her first attempt in that subject; |
| (b) | a student whose submission for any course of PFP fails to satisfy the Examiners shall be required to submit a revised report for that course not later than the end of the current academical year; |
| (c) | no student shall be a candidate in any subject on more than two occasions in total. |
Regulation 17(b) (Revised Regulations), Regulation 17(a) (New Curriculum Regulations) (renumbered 16(b), 16(a), respectively).
By amending the section so as to read:
have completed the Second M.B. by having passed all the subjects thereof; and
The Schedule has been rescinded and replaced by a new Schedule entitled 'Approved courses of instruction for the Second M.B. Examination' so as to read:
In addition to the courses offered as specific preparation for the subjects for the Second M.B. Examination, the following courses have been approved by the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine as appropriate courses of instruction for certain subjects of the Second M.B. Examination.
| Subjects in the Second M.B. Examination | Subject in Tripos Examinations | |
| Biology of Disease | NST IB Pathology | |
| or | NST II Pathology | |
| Mechanisms of Drug Action | NST IB Pharmacology | |
| or | NST II Pharmacology | |
| Molecules in Medical Science | NST IB Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | |
| or | NST II Biochemistry | |
| Homeostasis | NST IA Physiology of Organisms | |
| and | NST IB Physiology | |