Students with dyslexia?
The central question when considering an applicant who has dyslexia is whether the condition is of sufficient severity to prevent that person practising safely as a doctor. In general the requirements for admission to medical school are so high that we are dealing with a self-selected group of people who have, largely, learned to compensate for their dyslexia. The approach we take is to try to explore, with the applicant, the extent to which we try to judge the level of insight that the student has about difficulties that might be encountered with important matters such as drug prescribing. The University has extensive learning support facilities. The Medical School allows limited amount of extra time in purely academic examinations, by which we mean essays and multiple-choice papers. However, it is the view of the British Dyslexia Association and the Medical School that absolutely no concessions should be made in the conduct of clinical examinations.
A. The central question when considering an applicant who has dyslexia is whether the condition is of sufficient severity to prevent that person practising safely as a doctor. In general the requirements for admission to medical school are so high that we are dealing with a self-selected group of people who have, largely, learned to compensate for their dyslexia. The approach we take is to try to explore, with the applicant, the extent to which we try to judge the level of insight that the student has about difficulties that might be encountered with important matters such as drug prescribing. The University has extensive learning support facilities. The Medical School allows limited amount of extra time in purely academic examinations, by which we mean essays and multiple-choice papers. However, it is the view of the British Dyslexia Association and the Medical School that absolutely no concessions should be made in the conduct of clinical examinations.
