Medical school selection 1996-97

In 1997 I was commissioned by the Council for Heads of Medical Schools (CHMS; now the Medical Schools Council) to assess whether applicants from ethnic minorities were disadvantaged during the process of selection for medical school. The study, which analysed data provided by UCAS on all applications for admission in 1996 and 1997, was to prove somewhat controversial. It was published as a report in the British Medical Journal, and the full report was published by CHMS on its website.