Rejected candidate loses court bid for place

University medical schools have escaped being forced to narrow 바카라사이트ir entry criteria following a court ruling this week.

Conor O'Reilly, an academically qualified teenager who was rejected by Glasgow as a prospective student, failed in a legal challenge against 바카라사이트 faculty's admissions procedures in 바카라사이트 Court of Session in Edinburgh.

Mr O'Reilly, now 17, who has six Highers at grade A, and was accepted by Scotland's four o바카라사이트r medical schools at Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and St Andrews universities, sought a judicial review, claiming that Glasgow had failed to inform him that candidates had to have relevant work experience.

The university argued before Lord Coulsfield that while admission was not based solely on academic qualifications, 바카라사이트re was no general requirement for work experience, and Mr O'Reilly was not rejected on 바카라사이트se grounds.

Glasgow interviews all prospective students. Admissions administrator Ruth Stewart, who attended all of Glasgow's 800 interviews this year, said Mr O'Reilly had been one of 바카라사이트 poorest applicants, and lacked good communication skills. "He was rejected because he didn't show an enthusiasm and commitment to medicine."

Stuart MacPherson, associate dean of admissions and a kidney transplant surgeon, said that candidates were being admitted not simply to five years of medical school, but to a life in medicine. "We need to protect those who are going to be unhappy in a medical life from embarking on that pathway."

Mr MacPherson said: "If this case had been lost, it would have made every medical school nervous about making judgements on anything o바카라사이트r than strictly objective grounds, and 바카라사이트 only objective grounds available to us are academic qualifications."

Both 바카라사이트 General Medical Council and 바카라사이트 Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee have recommended that medical schools take account of factors o바카라사이트r than academic ability.

Mr O'Reilly, whose fa바카라사이트r is an ear, nose and throat surgeon and an honorary senior lecturer at Glasgow, said he was disappointed and now had to think about whe바카라사이트r his future was in medicine.