No 6465
Wednesday 17 May 2017
Vol cxlvii No 31
pp. 522–531
The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, has approved amendments to the regulations for the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, as set out below, so that they reflect changes made to the assessment schedule and resit policies for the Cambridge Graduate Course.
Regulation 16.
By combining Regulation 16(a) and 16(b) and creating a clause excepting Graduate Medical Course students so as to read:
Before taking any Part of the Final M.B. Examination a student shall have obtained a degree deemed appropriate by the Faculty Board and, with the exception of Cambridge Graduate Course students, shall have completed the Second M.B. Examination by having passed all the subjects thereof. No student whose name does not appear on the Medical Students Register shall be a candidate for any Part of the Final M.B. Examination.
Regulation 17.
By adding to the second sentence a clause excepting Graduate Medical Course students, so as to read:
A student who proposes to be a candidate for any Part of the Final M.B. Examination shall produce evidence of having satisfactorily completed the approved courses of clinical instruction appropriate to that Part. With the exception of Cambridge Graduate Course students, and except by permission of the Faculty Board in exceptional circumstances and subject to any conditions determined by them, a student’s course of clinical instruction shall not count towards the requirements of the Final M.B. Examination
(a) if it began before the student’s completion of the Second M.B. Examination;
or (b) if it began before the student obtained the degree required under Regulation 16 above.
Regulation 18.
By adding a sentence at the end of the regulation so as to read:
A student who has failed to complete satisfactorily any part of the approved courses of clinical instruction, including permitted reassessments as specified by the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, shall not be permitted to progress to the next course of clinical instruction. A Cambridge Graduate Course student who has not successfully completed the Second M.B. Examination, shall not be permitted to be a candidate for Part II of the Final M.B. examination.
In addition, the General Board gives notice that the regulations for the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery have been amended for consistency with the revised Regulation 17, as set out below.
Regulation 13.
By adding the phrase ‘and subject to any conditions determined by them’ to the phrase ‘except by special permission of the Faculty Board [granted] in exceptional circumstances’ to read:
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 and subject to any conditions determined by them,
(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 her or his 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)subject to Regulation 28, no student shall be a candidate in any subject on more than two occasions in total.
The Faculty Board shall not normally grant a student special permission under Regulation 13(c) on more than two separate occasions.
Regulation 20.
By adding the phrase ‘and subject to any conditions determined by them’ to the phrase ‘except by special permission of the Faculty Board [granted] in exceptional circumstances’ wherever it appears in those Regulations, to read:
Except by special permission of the Faculty Board in exceptional circumstances and subject to any conditions determined by them, no student shall be a candidate for any Part of the Final M.B. Examination, if more than ninety-six months have elapsed since he or she began the preclinical medical course, except that
(a)no Affiliated Student shall be a candidate for any Part of the Final M.B. Examination, if more than eighty-four months have elapsed since he or she began the preclinical medical course;
(b)no Cambridge Graduate Course student shall be a candidate for any Part of the Final M.B. examination, if more than seventy-two months have elapsed since he or she began the Cambridge Graduate Course;
(c)no M.B./Ph.D. Programme student shall be a candidate for any Part of the Final M.B. Examination, if more than 132 months have elapsed since he or she began the preclinical medical course (or 120 months in the case of an Affiliated Student);
(d)no student satisfying the requirements in Regulation 12(a) shall be a candidate for any Part of the Final M.B. Examination if more than forty-eight months have elapsed since he or she began the clinical medical course.
Regulation 21.
By adding the phrase ‘and subject to any conditions determined by them’ to the phrase ‘except by special permission of the Faculty Board [granted] in exceptional circumstances’ to read:
If at the first attempt a student fails to satisfy the Examiners in any component(s) of Part I, Part II, or Part III, he or she shall be eligible for re-examination in the relevant component(s) under conditions set by the Faculty Board, taking them separately or together, provided that
(a)a candidate for re-examination in Part III in any academical year following that in which he or she first took the examination shall offer all components of Part III; and
(b)subject to Regulation 28, if a candidate fails to satisfy the Examiners in any component of Part I, Part II, or Part III on one occasion subsequent to her or his first candidature for that component, he or she shall not be re-examined in that component again except by special permission of the Faculty Board in exceptional circumstances and subject to any conditions determined by them. The Faculty Board will not normally grant special permission for a student to be re-examined, if he or she has already been granted such permission on two separate prior occasions, either for Second M.B. or for Final M.B. Examinations.
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 573)
The General Board has agreed to add the following award to the Schedule of Diplomas and Certificates open to non‑members of the University:
Certificate in International Relations