ABSTRACT
The Great War emptied the London medical schools, letting in women for the first time in significant numbers. The average schoolboy or schoolgirl, then, who has decided by the age of fifteen that medicine is a possible career, will choose to study subjects at A-level that fulfil the requirements of most medical schools. These days applicants apply to medical school, as to university, before they have sat A-level exams, and are usually given offers of a place provisional on gaining a stated grade at A-level. The recommendation by the Deans of medical schools that only five medical schools should be chosen, leaving the other three choices for non-medical courses, was stated. Anatomical dissection had clearly been identified in anticipation by potential applicants as the most unknown and alarming aspect of medical training. In addition to Knowledge, demonstration of applicants’ determination to get into medical school, to achieve the Status of a medical student, is considered essential.
