Reporter 11/3/98: Regulations for Examinations: Notice by the General Board: Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos, Part II (General)

Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos, Part II (General)

The regulations for the Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 325) have been amended as set out below. The purpose of these amendments is as follows:

(a)	To reinstate the three Special Subjects, Immunology, Virology, and Genetic Pathology. These three Special Subjects, together with four others, were discontinued in 1997. The Faculty Board of Biology believe that as a result of this change in the scope of the examination candidates' choice of subject is now unduly restricted; they have also found that the withdrawal of these three Special Subjects within the field of Pathology has led to excessive pressure in other areas of the subject.
(b)	To introduce two new Special Subjects, Mechanisms of Disease A and B. These two Special Subjects are to be offered only as a pair.
(c)	To retitle the Special Subject History of Medicine as History of Medicine, Body, and Mind. This reflects a change in the emphasis of the course, which results from changes in the papers set in the subject History and Philosophy of Science in Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos.
(d)	To retitle the Special Subject Human Evolution, Behaviour, and Ecology as Primate and Human Evolutionary Biology and Behaviour. This results from changes in the papers set for Biological Anthropology in the Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos.

The regulations have been amended, with effect from 1 October 1998, as follows:

Regulation 25(a).

By amending the list of Special Subjects so as to read:

Cellular Pathology (Pathology A)
Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
Clinical Physiology and Neurobiology
Genetic Pathology (Pathology E)
History of Medicine, Body, and Mind
Human Genetics and Ecology
Human Impact on the Environment
Immunology (Pathology B)
Mechanisms of Disease A¹
Mechanisms of Disease B¹
Microbial and Parasitic Disease (Pathology C)
Pharmacology of Integrated Systems
Primate and Human Evolutionary Biology and Behaviour
Virology (Pathology D)

¹ These two Special Subjects may not be offered singly, but must be taken as a pair.

The Faculty Board of Biology have amended the supplementary regulations for Part II (General) of the Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 330), with effect from the same date, as follows:

History of Medicine

By amending the regulation for Special Subject History of Medicine so as to read:

History of Medicine, Body, and Mind

The written papers will be Papers 6 and 7 set for the subject History and Philosophy of Science in Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos.

Pathology

By amending the regulation for Special Subjects in Pathology so as to read:

Pathology A, B, C, D, and E

The written papers will be the papers set for the Special Subject Pathology in Part II (General) of the Natural Sciences Tripos. Each paper will be divided into five sections, corresponding to the following five Special Subjects: A, Cellular Pathology; B, Immunology; C, Microbial and Parasitic Disease; D, Virology; E, Genetic Pathology.

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