2002 UMMER

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Mr D P S Sandhu, Postgraduate Dean for LEICESTER OFFERS Overseas Doctors, explains how refugee doctors in the region are given the training they need to work in the NHS. Ever since the South Trent National Health Service, it has HELPING HAND TO Deanery secured funding to been at the forefront of national support the induction of overseas “Induction to the NHS” courses. REFUGEE DOCTORS doctors into working for the To date seven courses have now been held under the auspices of the LWMS as part of the South Trent Deanery. One of these was targeted to refugee doctors, who will not have undergone the same preparation as overseas doctors for working in the UK. To integrate refugee doctors into the NHS, the Deanery is proposing that doctors will regis- ter with their local Postgraduate Dean and be assigned a mentor. Registration will allow the Post-

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(Below) Vice-Chancellor of the , Professor David VandeLinde, NEW WING OPEN AT WARWICK with Lord and Lady Wolfson The University of Warwick Talking of the Institute, Dr celebrated the opening of the new Howel Jones, Chair of the Appeal Wolfson Wing of the BioMedical Group acknowledged: “This has Research Institute by Lord Wolfson only been possible because many himself, on Tuesday 14 May. hundreds of people have given More than 70 staff are currently their support and to all of them engaged in research in the inter- the Appeal Committee would like nationally acclaimed BioMedical to express its gratitude. We are Research Institute. Research confident that in the years ahead strengths are based in metabo- the reputation of the Institute will lism, diabetes and cardiovascular continue to grow and justify the disease; molecular microbiology; support which the Medical molecular physiology, neurobiol- Research Institute Appeal at the ogy, oncology and reproductive University of Warwick received in medicine and obstetrics. its early years.”

– LWMS Links with Curriculum News Saffron Group From this World to News in Brief – page 8

Inside this issue... Gondar – page 2 page 4 Practice – page 5 the Next – pages 6-7

Issue 2 Website: www.lwms.ac.uk news Leicester News SCHOOL Summer 2002 SIGNS OF SUCCESS

A British Sign Language course Language Centre studying as part which achieves the goals of the (BSL) run by the Warwick of the Leisure Evening Course Warwick and Leicester course – Language Centre proved so programme. This is the fourth being able to communicate with popular that the Centre had to year the subject has been offered patients of every ethnic origin put on a second group to cater on the Evening Course and those with disability. It was for the 25 applications. programme, with excellent probably one of the few modules The BSL course is a one-term examination results. where you and all your module for LWMS students, The students’ enthusiasm was housemates would sit in the designed and written by tutor evident. Pallavi Prasad said: “The lounge practising because you Maxine Ashmore. To be eligible to course is really enjoyable, and wanted to be better and fluent.” enter the Stage One Certificate very different. We also get a lot of Success, however, brought its examination of the Council for teaching in deafness awareness – own hazards. Some medical the Advancement of things like the fact that for a deaf students became so proficient Communication with Deaf person nothing is confidential they used their BSL skills to People students need to continue and you have to be careful who communicate secretly in their studies for three terms. you talk about, making sure your lectures – only to be To achieve this, where mouth patterns are clear and embarrassed on one occasion timetabling and Medical School keeping constant eye contact.” when a lecturer proved as fluent commitments allow, some Hannah Packman added: “It in the language as they were. students have subsequently was fantastic – a really fun and Philip Parker joined other groups within the useful special study module Manager, Language Centre LEICESTER – GONDAR LINK

A link between the medical improved clinical practice, while schools of Leicester and Gondar, Leicester gains a rare opportunity Ethiopia, was created in 1997. to acquire skills and experience Gondar is a small town, albeit the of medical practice in a different third largest city of Ethiopia, with environment; sharing of research a population of 60,000. It serves a and clinical projects. mainly rural community, and is Exchange visits have taken situated in the highlands of place, lasting two to six weeks, Ethiopia, near the Simian including Paediatric visits which mountains. The hospital has 320 have resulted in research projects beds, and caters for the huge area in asthma, disability and anaemia. Royal Infirmary, so of NW Ethiopia. In a study to find the preva- please come along Many people live so far away lence and causes of anaemia, 300 and support the link. that they receive no health care. children were tested in the field. Our link is still at a Facilities at the hospital are Results showed a higher preva- very early stage, but limited with no intensive care. lence in the lowlands, due to we have already Wards are crowded and under- malaria, and 50 per cent of the achieved some of staffed. Infectious diseases are children had bowel parasitosis at our aims, and we the most common problems, the time of testing! All have now hope to see further such as TB, HIV, pneumonia and been treated. The diet has a vari- progress over the hepatitis. The medical college able iron content depending on next three years. trains 50 doctors a year, 80 nurses the season. • A book has just as well as health assistants, sani- Funding is raised through been published, in students will all receive a copy. tarians and technicians. grants from charities, local groups which Gondar and Leicester • Students from LWMS have Through the link, Gondar ben- and our own efforts, such as con- Paediatricians have collabo- already undertaken electives in efits from teaching and training in certs given by musical members rated to write additional “trop- Gondar. clinical and research areas; the of the Link. The next one is on ical” chapters to add to a Elaine Carter, undertaking of research projects Thurday, 5 September, in the Clin- Leicester-based Paediatric text- Consultant Paediatrician, identified to translate into ical Education Centre, Leicester book. Gondar and Leicester May 2002 2 Leicester Warwick Medical School News focus Summer 2002 RESEARCH

REFUGEE DOCTORS (Continued from page 1) graduate Dean to offer a range of educational opportunities. These include access to study groups and local educational facilities, such as libraries, and attendance at education meet- ings, such as Journal Clubs, Grand Rounds, X-ray, Pathol- ogy, Audit and Multidisciplinary Team meetings. There will be opportunities to gain exam practice through par- ticipation in undergraduate and Opening of the new islet isolation facility at LGH (left to right): Steve White, Prof Nicholson, Sir Peter Morris, postgraduate examinations to Dr Sue Swift, Sue Townsend (author), James Shapiro and Dr Moira Murphy. gain insight into NHS working through clinical attachments. To practise medicine in the UK, non-European doctors are required to pass the Interna- tional English Language Testing Advances in Islet system (IELTS) and the Profes- sional Linguistic Assessment Board (PLAB) examinations. The Transplantation Deanery proposes that further preparation of Refugee Doctors for working for the NHS could Islets of Langerhans secrete fore be offered to the majority of building a new state of the art be served by three-monthly insulin from their beta cells. the diabetic population. Until two islet isolation facility at the adaptive posts that provide Insulin controls blood glucose. years ago the results of islet trans- Leicester General Hospital opportunity for hands-on practi- Patients with Type 1 diabetes have plantation were poor. (8 per cent (Division of Transplantation), cal experience and allow for a deficiency of insulin because insulin independence at one funded partly by Diabetes UK. assessment and appraisal of pro- their beta cells have been year). A seminal paper by James This laboratory was officially fessional development. destroyed by an autoimmune Shapiro from Edmonton, Canada opened at the end of January So far eight refugee doctors process. Treatment of diabetes reported markedly improved 2002 by Sue Townsend, author of have been identified locally. usually comprises insulin success in a series of patients now the Adrian Mole series, Moira The Deanery has developed injections but these do not links with the local Overseas prevent long-term complications Graduate Development Pro- such as blindness, kidney failure Islet transplantation can be done under a local gramme which offers some and neuropathy. support to refugees and it is A minority of patients are anaesthetic and has almost no risk to the hoped to secure funding for sometimes suitable for a pancreas patients. Potentially it can therefore be offered three NHS adaptive posts. transplant if they already have or These will be appointed on a need a future kidney transplant. to the majority of the diabetic population. competitive basis. These patients need drugs to Mr D P S Sandhu, Associate prevent the pancreas from being Postgraduate Dean for Overseas rejected. Unfortunately a approaching 35. At least 80 per Murphy, head of research at Doctors at the University of pancreas transplant is a major cent of patients are off insulin Diabetes UK, and Sir Peter Leicester, said: “Professionally it operation with a 10 per cent risk injections at one year, some Morris, President of the Royal is very satisfying. For some of of mortality at one year. patients are now approaching College of Surgeons of England. A these people it is the first time Nevertheless 85 per cent of four years. small number of selected patients in their lives that someone has patients do not require insulin With this increased enthusiasm are currently being assessed for taken an interest and encour- injections beyond one year post- and improved results, a UK-based islet transplantation. aged them to get on, and we transplant. An alternative consortium has been set up by It is hoped that in the near have received some wonderful procedure is transplantation of Diabetes UK to reproduce these future Leicester will perform one letters from them as a result. It is the islets of Langerhans. results and develop new of the first transplants in the UK not just a matter of the Leicester Islet transplantation can be protocols for islet using this new protocol. Warwick Medical School and the done under a local anaesthetic transplantation. The Department Mr SA White Deanery, this initiative is some- and has almost no risk to the of Surgery at the University of Lecturer in Surgery thing the whole nation can be patients. Potentially it can there- Leicester has just completed Division of Transplantation proud of.” 3 news Leicester Warwick Medical School News CURRICULUM Summer 2002

Protected Time for Teaching The increasing number of stu- normally have six to seven ‘fixed’ teachers that has been available in grating new appointments into dents entering LWMS means that sessions, defined as involving general practice for years. the system. For example, a innovative ways of delivering the other staff, such as clinics and But what will happen to the department may be planning a curriculum are needed. The pres- operating sessions. Teaching has service load previously done in new consultant but does not yet sures on clinical teaching are par- normally been in non-fixed ses- this fixed session? There will need have sufficient workload to justify ticularly acute. The number of stu- sions like those for administration to be a number of new consultant one. Part funding from increases dents in the first year of the or research. appointments. The increase will in the teaching levy may enable course is now 303 and these will This means that when the pres- be about one new appointment an appointment to be made if it start full-time clinical attachments sure is on from the service for every 14 existing consultants frees up teaching sessions for in March 2003. demand, teaching gets squeezed in teaching partnerships since other consultants. So far all allocations of students out. Creating an extra fixed ses- to clinical teachers have been in sion from a non-fixed session will the ratio of two students to a pair not of course help as the other Using an existing fixed session for teaching of teachers, which we have called work will still need to be done. a partnership. This can be What needs to happen is to use an instead of for something else would mean that maintained into the future given a existing fixed session for teaching there would be protected time for teaching on a modest increase in consultant instead of for something else. numbers. This would mean that there regular basis each week. However the School’s plans are would be protected time for for a further increase up to 400 stu- teaching on a regular basis each dents and it will not then be possi- week. It would also mean that each new appointment frees up The consultant contract is ble to maintain these favourable teaching would assume an equiva- one fixed session from seven under review at this time and may teaching ratios. It has therefore lent importance to clinical work, other consultants and only one of include greater clarity about non- been decided to attach students in and like clinical work should be the pair would have a fixed teach- fixed sessions that may be helpful. threes rather than pairs. evaluated and appraised. This ing session. In the meantime we suggest that To compensate we are propos- should lead to an increase in the Of course consultants do not departments give active consider- ing that one of the pair of consul- professionalisation of clinical come in convenient groups of 14 ation to how they might use this tants has a fixed session in his/her teaching and achieve something so there will need to be a careful opportunity to improve their clin- contract for teaching. Consultants of the level of support for hospital management process for inte- ical teaching.

Vincent van Gogh’s Wheatfield with Crows, painted shortly before he shot himself, Arts in Medicine shows many signs of desperation. (© Vincent van Gogh Foundation) The medical profession has come in for a fair amount of bad press over the past year or two and in the aftermath of scandals from Bristol and Alder Hey Hospitals and – even worse – Dr Harold Shipman, the spectre of the doctor who does not see patients as people has risen again. The “Arts in Medicine” special study option is one means to try to help LWMS students to broaden their understanding of patients’ experience of illness and the dif- ferent ways of expressing that. The module is run by Dr Paul Lazarus, a practising GP and Lec- turer in the University of Leicester producing a 3,000-4,000 word Department of General Practice essay, they also take part in semi- The “Arts in Medicine” special study option is and Primary Health Care and in nars and interactive workshops, the Division of Medical Education. including one in drama. The mod- one means to try to help LWMS students to Students agree an arts topic ule receives a lot of support from with him, usually literature-based, the four members of staff from the broaden their understanding of patients’ though it can also be drawn from Department of English who also the visual arts or music. As well as teach on it. experience of illness. 4 Leicester Warwick Medical School News campus Summer 2002 OFF

The Saffron Group Practice has The arrival of a new nurse taken training to heart and three years ago from a back- become something of a pioneer, ground in hospitals acted as a not just within its own practice catalyst for training in consulta- but throughout Leicestershire. tion skills more specific to The practice has taught third primary health care nursing. Dr and fourth year medical students Adrian Hastings, Senior Lecturer on the Clinical Methods course in Medical Education, and Dr since it began. It aims to further Sarah Redsell, Senior Lecturer in enhance the generic consulta- Clinical Nursing Audit, put tion skills of medical students together a series of workshops in and is unique in teaching the Consultation Assessment and same skills in hospital and Improvement Instrument for general practice settings. Nurses (CAIIN). Its objectives Students are appreciative of were to identify nurses’ their teaching, which is depen- consulting strengths and weak- dent on close observation of nesses, and provide feedback, their consulting skills, both support and strategies for directly and through videotape improvement. of their consultations with On the administrative front, patients. The primary care having got to grips themselves setting offers invaluable opportu- with the notion of becoming a nities for students to encounter “paperless” unit, Pat Brook- patients with new problems, thus house and her colleagues chan- providing excellent learning chal- nelled much of their energy into lenges to improve their diag- putting together training work- nostic and management skills. shops to help other practices However, in addition to move more smoothly into the training students, the group has era of new technology. specialised in offering training in IT, consultation, receptionist skills and lecture presentations. Practice Manager Pat Brook- house explained how it all Training: Investment began: “Two years ago we bought the house next door and moved our attached staff there. in the Future Then we turned the rooms they had occupied into two consulting rooms and seminar “We recognised that there room with a video link for were lots of practices who don’t “The training we had from the Saffron Group Practice was specifically training purposes. City West PCT get the time to develop the on the Links system for getting results from the Leicester Royal gave us some funding to help processes they need. We work Infirmary. They got us all sorted out. Pat Brookhouse came into the with equipment and the conver- with City West, visiting other surgery, which was very helpful.” sion of the rooms.” This multi- practices to see what their train- Beverley Hallett, Practice Manager, disciplinary training facility ing needs are in terms of becom- De Montfort University Student Health Centre opened in March 2002. ing a paperless unit, and we work She continued: “The feeling with them on site, for instance to “I’ve been over to the Saffron Group a couple of times and they have was that we wanted to make this help them install pathology links come here, too. I’m fairly new in this post and I couldn’t have asked practice a centre for learning and with the Leicester Royal Infir- for better support on EMIS. Twice I had to ask Melanie Bates, the IT teaching for all types of staff – mary through EMIS. We’re hop- Manager, to come over and she came and sorted out the problems. It registrars, health visitors, nurses ing to become the trainers for has been excellent for us.” as well as administration, clerical the PCT, which will put our exist- Julie Harris, Practice Manager, St Matthews Medical Centre and reception staff.” ing training programmes on a more formal basis. Contact details: “It has been really exciting and The Saffron Group Practice: rewarding to go into practices Mrs Pat Brookhouse, and help them with the IT 7 partners (5.5 fte) Attached staff: Practice Manager processes. Some are more 2 practice nurses, principally (Members of Sure Start) • Tel 0116 244 0888 nervous than others about the involved with chronic disease 6 district nurses • Fax 0116 283 1405 changes, but I see that as part of management 2 health visitors • Email Brookhouse_P@gp- our role – to help support Counsellor, 2 days a week 4 midwives C82046.nhs.uk practices through their 11 admin and clerical staff individual needs.” 10,000 patients

5 focus Leicester Warwick Medical School News STUDENT Summer 2002 Student Electives: From This World to the Next

On the evening of 12 March lems is significant. It was hard for 2002, six students from the an “outsider” to understand final-year class gave a some aspects of the mental ill- presentation to a packed ness suffered by Ugandans, as in audience in the Clinical many ways their culture is very Education Centre at the different from ours. Leicester Royal Infirmary. The Working on the isolation ward evening was organised by Dr. was possibly the most challeng- Joan Davies who supervised the ing part of my elective, both intel- student electives. The six lectually and emotionally, in deal- presentations took the audience ing with very sick patients, many on a journey around the globe of whom were only a few years and into outer space (almost). older than me. Nothing could The evening concluded with have prepared me for looking awards to all those who after the patients with AIDS, TB presented. The 1st prize went to and other infectious illnesses. Catherine Wayne, 2nd prize to Death seemed to be accepted Claire West and 3rd prize to Grant in a way I had never seen before. Wilde. Well done! Ugandan people must grow up almost surrounded by death. Per- Claire West haps for this reason, and also Kisiizi Hospital, Uganda because they have so little in My elective was spent at Kisiizi terms of material possessions, many Ugandans have a very hospital, a mission hospital in Classes were abandoned and vibrant Christian faith. They have On 11 September Uganda. I spent seven weeks liv- many students whose families so little in this life that they can ing and working in this busy hos- worked in the Pentagon tried to pital community situated in a lush think clearly about the afterlife. 2001 lectures began My elective was immensely find out more information. At this green valley in the south-west time there were still aircraft unac- corner of this amazingly beauti- enjoyable, but also very challeng- as usual... ing. I felt privileged to gain an counted for in the air above us ful, but unbelievably poor, coun- and, as a military installation, we insight into the lives of people CATHERINE WAYNE try. were a potential target for terror- The day starts at 8am in the from a country so different from my own, and work in a team so ism. A decision was made for us, chapel when all the staff, from the dedicated to relieving suffering the senior year, to become opera- Medical Superintendent down to that we in the West can forget so tional. My initial thoughts of want- the labourers from the building easily. ing to be safe gave way to feelings site, together with many of the ter motto was “Good Medicine in of wanting to use my skills, how- patients and relatives, come Catherine Wayne Bad Places” and this was the most ever basic they are, in order to together in the chapel for morn- Washington, September feared part of the course. help those needing medical care. I ing prayers. A busy day covered 2001 On 11 September 2001 lectures was asked to organise a triage area medical and surgical wards as As a “Cadetship Officer” with the began, as usual at 7:30 am. How- in the cafeteria in case of patient well as outpatients. Royal Air Force (RAF) I chose to ever, the morning was inter- overflow from the Washington On the medical ward there do my elective within the armed rupted by our instructor’s emer- area. Our area was actually not were several patients with mental forces. Following a three-week gency pager. The message was used as few casualties were health problems. Mental health placement at RAF Akrotiri, relayed to us that an aircraft had brought out of the Pentagon has not been regarded as a prior- Cyprus, I then went on a four- struck the World Trade Centre in requiring medical attention. The ity area for the government, with week Military Contingency Medi- New York. Our lecturers, all next day our lecturers described a limited number of drugs avail- cine course in Washington, USA. trauma surgeons, were the mili- the scene they faced at the sites able. The drugs are very expen- The course consisted of a tary rapid response team and and how they had worked sive and as a result patients fre- three-day ATLS teaching with deployed immediately by heli- throughout the night alongside quently default. Anti-depressants assessment followed by a three- copter to the area. Some went the other emergency services. were often given at sub-therapeu- week “Military Contingency Med- directly to New York while others The aims of the “Bushmaster” tic doses and rarely for more than icine” portion. Our skills were went to the Pentagon once news exercise were to place the ulti- a few weeks. The stigma faced by then tested in a three-day “Bush- broke that it also had been hit by mate stress on us when based in patients with mental health prob- master” exercise. The Bushmas- a hijacked aircraft. a field hospital by way of 16-hour 6 Leicester Warwick Medical School News focus Summer 2002 STUDENT

(Far left) Catherine Wayne; (left) Vishal Nangalia; (bottom) infant MedSin patients in Uganda Fundraising Triumph

Two first-year MedSin members, Maddy Wright and tre in Cologne, Germany, which, Hannah Green, raised over as its name implies, is the lead £600 from a sponsored ESA division concerned with volleyball tournament over human spaceflight. the Mayday bank holiday for While at the centre I was the Gondar Project. Despite involved in helping other flight the shock to the system of 24 surgeons collate data to help hours of non-stop volleyball, answer specific questions. One Maddy and Hannah still had of these was to help formulate the energy to write about it: the required parameters for “The Gondar Project is mapping out the radiation envi- basically to develop the ronment inside the soon-to-be established link that the launched European “Columbus” Leicester Warwick Medical module for the International School and its associated Space Station. hospitals have with the However my main project was Gondar Medical College and to try and devise an overall hospital in Gondar, Ethiopia. approach to space medicine. This “Last year MedSin student involved looking at the changes Fatima Osmani raised money to the human body in the altered to enable the project to send gravity of space as a normal phys- loads of medical text books out to the College, with the iological reaction to stimuli and result that now they have a not a pathological state. I also library and access to some looked at ways to enable the body more recent information. to re-adapt to earth-like gravity “As you can imagine, the more easily on return, by stress- Gondar Medical School has ing the human body in specific little in the way of other ways, while in zero-G. resources and so our primary I later considered the concept aim this year was to raise of a second-generation money to buy CD Roms, and countermeasure to these very medical equipment such as adaptations. This was the stethoscopes that we feel “Vibrating Penguin Suit”. The may help students’ educa- penguin suit was first developed tion. This is what the money by the Russians in the late 1960s shifts, mass casualties, constant raised from the volleyball Death seemed to be and consisted of a jumpsuit with enemy threat and moral issues of tournament went towards. bungee chords to simulate the triage. Qualities of leadership and “Our aim for the future is accepted in a way I loads on the postural muscle team skill were evaluated by to establish correspondance groups that gravity provides on those who do it for real. with Gondar medical had never seen Earth. I learnt that a Military doctor is students, with perhaps the Overall my time at the Euro- no different from any other. The opportunity of visiting their before. Ugandan pean Space Agency was enlight- same qualities of knowledge, medical college to learn ening, exhilarating and frankly empathy, practical skill and com- about their techniques and people grow up amazing. I was involved with passion are all needed along with topics such as tropical the versatility of working in hos- almost surrounded something that one normally diseases. The idea is not that tile environments. only sees on TV and imagines – we are a charity, but that both by death... literally – to be a world away. I medical schools learn from Vishal Nangalia plan to pursue space medicine each other.” Space Medicine with the CLAIRE WEST as my career and to be part of European Space Agency this great adventure – and, who I spent my elective working at knows, even one day to “boldly the European Space Agency’s go where no man has gone (ESA) European Astronaut Cen- before”. 7 news Leicester Warwick Medical School News SCHOOL Summer 2002

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Leicester Warwick Medical a relatively young medical school School select the le® Virtual and highlights Leicester’s Learning Environment increasing prominence within the Leicester Warwick Medical medical community. With School has selected Fretwell Warwick ranked top of the Downing Learning’s le® as the Sociology table and 6th in the virtual learning environment overall university ratings, the (VLE) to support its medical combined strengths of the two students. le® will provide campuses will clearly make LWMS controlled access for students to an attractive option for its MBChB curriculum while prospective students. tracking their progress See: http://www.timesonline. throughout the course. co.uk/section/0,,716,00.html for Learning Resources Manager details. Dr. Hazel Derbyshire said: “The project team looked at a dozen or New medical degree Open Afternoon – 22 May so systems. le® was the only one available The Medical School at the University of Warwick opened its that offered sufficient flexibility to The Leicester Warwick Medical doors to 26 Warwick Students for an Open Afternoon on 22 May meet our needs.” School has launched a new four- to promote both four-year graduate entry programmes. Integration of web-based year medical course based at the communication tools with the University of Leicester. This is learning environment is also a aimed at health science and major benefit. By 2003, the LWMS health studies graduates working Division of Child Psychiatry based £750,000, thanks to its links with will be the largest in the country, in the health sector and at the Greenwood Institute of the University of Warwick – and with over 400 medical students, undergraduates about to Child Health. the fact that the Government had many of who will be on clinical graduate in those disciplines. It Details of the course can be underspent on its research and placements nationally or complements the Medical accessed via the Greenwood development allocations. The internationally. le® provides the School’s existing four-year website, www.le.ac.uk/greenwood funding will go towards equip- secure access to learning programme for biological ment for the new medical school Distinctions materials these students need sciences graduates, offered at the building, due to open in 2003. through a standard internet University of Warwick. The new Congratulations to Professor Sir LWMS Tour 2001 – 2002 browser, without requiring the course is expected to attract Peter Bell on his recent installation of any client software. more than 300 applications. With knighthood. Felicity Martin and Lara just 64 places available, applicants Three Leicester Professors – McCarthy from the LWMS at the Leicester moves up the table will be expected to have at least Professor Nilesh Samani, Cardi- University of Warwick travelled to The Times Good University an upper second-class honours ology, Professor Richard Trem- 11 Universities, including Bristol, Guide (7 May 2002) has ranked degree in a health science or bath, Genetics, and Professor Leeds and Manchester, to 9th out related subject. Mike Clarke, Epidemiology and promote the four-year Biological of a total of 24 UK medical Public Health – have all been and Biomedical Science MBChB schools. Leicester is ranked above Successful launch elected to the Academy of for entry in 2003. They spoke to Imperial College, UCL, and all the of new course Medical Sciences. over 300 students in total about other midland universities. The A new course in Child Mental graduate entry and the ranking is based on the Teaching Health at the University of Government grant for admissions procedure, and Quality Assessment (TQA), the Leicester has proved so popular it Walsgrave Hospital received a very warm welcome research grades (RAE) and the is fully booked until 2004. The Against stiff national competi- from all the universities visited. A average A-level score of entrants. Masters / Diploma / Certificate in tion, Coventry’s Walsgrave repeat tour recruiting for 2004 This is a notable achievement for Child Mental Health is run by the Hospital has received funding of entry is being organised.

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