There is an upper as well as a lower limit in the intelligence required of a good doctor. The results from the 3Cers are perfectly creditable.
The real solution is to reduce doctors' salaries. Then those with a vocation to medicine will be able to find places.

Malcolm McLean, Bradford, UK

Having applied to study Medicine a few times now. It is clear that medical schools favour those canduidates from middle/upper class back grounds. Unfortunately, medical school interviews are aloof to the benefits of accepting candidates into medical school from diverse social back grounds.

Andrew, Worcester, Worcestershire

£190,000 per student per year is a shocking sum. I could get a medical degree from overseas for that. Can I have some of that money so I don't have to borrow it, paying it off out of junior doctor's wages if I return here to work in the NHS?

I wish I was from an ethnic minority. It sounds ace!

Andrew Mooney, Huddersfield, UK

The entry requirements are a reflection of the popularity of the course relative to the places available, not its intellectual rigor, the same is true of every university course. Not to say the course is not academically demanding, it certainly is, but that is not what determines the entry grades.

Sarah, London, UK

The entry requirements are a reflection of the rigour of the courses, or at least that is the clear impression from what I see my friends studying medicine going through.
Whether that leads to better doctors is questionable. What correlation between good A-level grades and good bed-side manner?

Guy, Oxford,

This is dumbing down in the worst way. Yes i think everyone should have a chance in life but the last thing this country needs is something else to undermine the legitimacy of our healthcare. Remember when public schools took kids for free from the east end? 80% dropped out. It is too idealistic.

Alex, London, England

Opening Teaching up to adults with few, if any, formal qualifications has been bad enough. Some of them can't string a coherent sentence together. Are we going to have to suffer the same terrifying drop in standards from the medical profession? It's time to leave Britain I think.

judy, liverpool, england

“A new type of doctor is being created that, among other things, better reflects the social diversity of London's population.”
In other words, yet another social engineering scheme to excluded higher achievers in favour of dross.

John, London, UK

I think you will find it is 190k per student per year extra. The pass rate for BSc is not the same and so I also doubt the quality of the doctors that are being produced at the other end, many more may be just scraping through.

Pete, Edinburgh,

£190, 000 per year - around £6000 per student? Not much compared to the amount of money spent by the middle classes on their offspring. Also the "3 C-ers" should be higher future earners because of the scheme, so paying more tax.

Diana, derby, UK