The General Medical Council has praised the degree programme for medical students at Aberdeen.
The MBChB programme at the University of Aberdeen’s School of Medicine was scrutinised by a team of 12 GMC representatives who made several visits to the Foresterhill and Inverness campuses and who also monitored last year’s final exams and spoke to staff and students.
Aberdeen was selected as one of three pilot sites in the UK for the new GMC Quality Assurance Process for Undergraduate Medical Education. It was the only Scottish medical school to be involved - Liverpool and Birmingham were the other centres which took part.
The GMC’s evaluation of Aberdeen highlighted seventeen areas of good practice within the degree programme. Their report also praised the “enthusiasm of the staff” and the “enthusiasm and loyalty to the School of the students”.
The report found the standard of lectures to be “high” and noted that the students were able to ask questions at any time and felt confident about doing so. It also hailed the GP tutors for their “high standards of teaching”.
The report also described the mediCAL – computer assisted learning – facilities at the Medical School as “excellent”.
Dr Hamish McKenzie is Associate Dean (Undergraduate Medicine) at the University of Aberdeen. He said: “We are delighted that the General Medical Council has said so many good things about our medical course and about our students.
“We hope that this report will further enhance the University of Aberdeen’s reputation and also help attract the next generation of medical students to come and study here.”