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GEM at Trinity?

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  • 26-08-2015 1:34am
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    retweet
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    Any reason why Trinity do not have a Graduate Medicine course?


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    Anita Blow
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    They used the funding instead to establish Human Health & Disease as a course to cater to those who want to do medicine to pursue academia/research.


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    Pookla
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    Anita Blow wrote: »
    They used the funding instead to establish Human Health & Disease as a course to cater to those who want to do medicine to pursue academia/research.

    Probably worth pointing out that this is actually a biomedical science degree.

    It can lead to working in medical research but in the exact same way that any biochemistry/anatomy/physiology/pharmacology etc. etc. etc. degree can.


    TCD may well end up developing a GEM programme in the future. They just seem happy enough to do without at the moment.


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    Btrippn
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    Pookla wrote: »
    Probably worth pointing out that this is actually a biomedical science degree.

    It can lead to working in medical research but in the exact same way that any biochemistry/anatomy/physiology/pharmacology etc. etc. etc. degree can.


    TCD may well end up developing a GEM programme in the future. They just seem happy enough to do without at the moment.

    That's true but the degree is broader than general science courses as you don't specialise. Also they cover the same anatomy/physiology/pharmacology modules as the medics so it definitely prepares students well for GEM.

    Trinity have stated before that there is no intention of developing a GEM degree in the near future.


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    Abby19
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    retweet wrote: »
    Any reason why Trinity do not have a Graduate Medicine course?

    When the GEM programs were being set up Trinity bid for one of the courses but was not successful. UCC, UCD, RCSI and UL were successful.
    As mentioned in another post Trinity set up the Human Health and Diseases course which is effectively a biomedical science course. There was preciously an intention to allow advanced entry for a set number of graduates of HHD to 2nd year medicine (according to the course coordinator), so this could become Trinity's version of graduate entry, however this does not appear to have materialised. Trinity does have mature entry, and has the 2nd highest number of mature places after RCSI, but is significantly cheaper and a guaranteed 5 years.


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