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Break the middle-class stranglehold on studying medicine - says leading doctor

Source: The Guardian

Nov 04, 2009

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Medical students from well-off families should pay higher tuition fees so that more scholarships can be made available for those from poorer backgrounds, says chair of General Medical Council

Medical students from well-off families should pay higher fees so that more would-be medics from poorer backgrounds can go to university, one of the country's leading doctors has urged.

The move would help break the middle-class domination of medical training and allow talented students who are currently put off by the huge cost involved to realise their ambition, according to Dr Peter Rubin, the chair of the General Medical Council, which regulates the UK's 185,000 working doctors.

In an interview with the Guardian, Rubin said the UK should follow the example of America, where better-off students subsidise poorer peers' admission through higher fees. "A large number of America's very best private universities, the Harvards and Stanfords of this world, actively recruit young people of high talent, whatever their backgrounds. Those who can afford high fees pay high fees, and

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