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Medical Schools

Andy Chamberlain of Cambridge Assessment will give a seminar on Tuesday the 30th of June at 3.00 pm in the Division of Human Genetics (14 via C Forlanini) on Admission tests for Medical Schools fit for the future.  All College students and in particular medical students are invited to attend.

Admission to Medical Schools is a major challenge as all countries all over the world need to ensure that future doctors have the background knowledge and the human skills that the study and practice of medicine require. Cambridge Assessment have developed several of the admission tests used in the United Kingdom (BioMedical Admission Test, BMAT, and the International Medical Admission Test, IMAT) and in this seminar Andy Chamberlain will discuss the format of current admission tests and their future requirements and development.

Cambridge Assessment is a not-for-profit organisation  established as the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) by the University of Cambridge in 1858. It operates and manages the University's three exam boards Cambridge English Language Assessment, Cambridge International Examinations and the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA (OCR) Examinations) and carries out leading-edge academic and operational research on assessment in education.  It designs and delivers assessments to over 8 million learners in over 170 countries and is committed to fairness, a sound ethical underpinning and high technical standards and, in the academic year 2013/14, brought income for £ 317 millions to the University of Cambridge.