The BSc (Med) Degree is Introduced in 1949
From Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive
Despite pressures on time and resources resulting from the high students numbers, the Faculty inaugurated the BSc(Med) Scheme in 1949. This allowed students with good academic records to complete an individual research project in one of the medical science departments under supervision of one of the senior academics.
The course was structured so that students would complete the first three years of their medical studies, then spend a year undertaking their scientific research before returning to their medical degree. It was popular from its inception, and for many individual BSc(Med) students, the experience was crucial in determining their choice of academic medicine as a career. For some examples, Donald Metcalf, Gustav Nossal and Jacques Millar all completed BSc(Med) years with Professor Pat de Burgh.
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