UCL fields top two London medical students

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Two UCL students were recognised in June 2008 as this year's overall best graduating medical students in the University of London.

Christopher Lane (UCL Medical School 2008) won the University of London Gold Medal for Medicine.

As Gold Medal runner-up, Neil Halliday (UCL Medical School 2008) won the University of London Betuel Prize.

Professor Edward Byrne, Head of the UCL Medical School, said: "This fantastic result confirms the place of UCL as a world-class medical school with marvellous students. UCL's record in its students winning the gold medal in recent years has been quite outstanding. The school congratulates our winners."

The Gold Medal is decided by a special exam taken by the best of 1,300 final-year medical students in London. Each medical school nominates one candidate for every 75 of its students, based on the results of their final examinations.

The Gold Medal examination involves being interviewed by experts on pathology, medicine, surgery, clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and paediatrics. The criteria examined were knowledge, clinical context, therapeutic relevance and evidence-base, social and community context and relevance, recent advances, and judgement and reasoning.

Since its introduction in 1903, the Gold Medal has been won on almost half the years by candidates from UCL and its constituent medical schools.

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Image: From left to right - Chris Lane and Neil Halliday