Is undergraduate medical education in the United Kingdom being dumbed down?
I think the answer is yes. I speak as somebody who has spent 30 years teaching British undergraduates aged 17 and 18. Undergraduates are intelligent but less focused than the graduate students. I teach not only at a postgraduate medical school in Warwick but have taught postgraduates for 15 years in the Caribbean and America. It is definitely a more rewarding experience. People are too young at 18 to know that they really want to go into such a committing career as medicine.
