Cambridge University Reporter


Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (Revised Regulations and New Curriculum Regulations): Final M.B. Examination

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 431, and Reporter, 2003-04, p. 1065)

With immediate effect

Further to the publication of the Report of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine on amendments to the regulations for the Final Examination for the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, and the approval of the New Curriculum Regulations as outlined in that Report (Reporter, 2003-04, p. 1065) and in further revisions published (Reporter, 2004-05, p. 548), the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine now propose further changes to the New Curriculum Regulations and, where indicated, to the Revised Regulations. These changes take into account: changes to the timings of the examinations; formalizing the practical and clinical assessment requirements of the clinical course; and new procedures relating to the requirements of students taking re-sit examinations.

Regulation 3.

By amending sub-paragraph (h) so as to read:

(h) the term satisfactory completion shall mean that the student has performed appropriately in an examination or submitted work which satisfies the Director of Medical Education, or another officer authorized by the Director.

Regulation 14 (previously Regulation 15, renumbered in Reporter, p. 548).

By replacing in line 3 the words 'June and December' by the words 'the Easter Term and the following Michaelmas Term'.

Regulation 17 (previously Regulation 18, renumbered in Reporter, p. 548).

By replacing in line 2 the words 'satisfactorily attended' by the words 'satisfactorily completed'.

Regulation 18 (previously Regulation 19, renumbered in Reporter, p. 548).

In sub-paragraph (d)(i), by deleting the words 'or provides evidence of having satisfactorily completed the first eighteen months of the Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine'.

Regulation 20 (and Regulation 20 of the Revised Regulations) (previously Regulation 21, renumbered in Reporter, p. 548).

By inserting in line 2, after the words 'Part or component,' the words 'under conditions set by the Faculty Board,' and, in line 1 of sub-paragraph (c), by replacing the word 'two' by the word 'one'.

SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS

(Reporter, 2003-04, p. 1072)

By removing the current entry for Part I. Pathology.