020 7584 5818 [email protected] www.gamsat.co.uk 3 Our Patron Professor Richard Knight Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neurology Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Edinburgh University Director of the UK National CJD Surveillance Unit. We are delighted that Professor Knight has been our Patron since 2004 and an active member of our team. He comments; “As a graduate entrant to medical school, I fully understand that mature students facing the challenge of changing career paths for a future in medicine undoubtedly benefit from a good support system. GRADMED are, in the UK and Ireland, the pioneers in this field, and it has been my privilege to act as their patron for the past twenty years”. The study and practice of medicine is demanding, continually educative and will change your life fundamentally. As Professor Richard Knight, noted in his lecture last August, “You may change medicine, medicine will certainly change you.” This is echoed by one of our alumni, a former actress, when she emailed us the following: ‘Today was my first day in theatre, and nothing could have prepared me for it. In the hush of the theatre I was part of the surgery team that removed a lump from a woman’s breast and I found myself peering into a perfect stranger’s body. Hours later I’m still buzzing.’ Our Course Director and Tutors Our teaching is the bedrock of our courses, and our tutors, many of whom have been with us since the very early days, are unrivalled in their understanding of GAMSAT and their ability to teach to the requirements and nuances of the test. They have extensive direct experience, and have absorbed and implemented the fundamental core of reasoning and problem solving within a scientific context – crucial PBL skills of analysis, application and deduction – that require so much more than simply skilled subject teaching. Course Director Paul Hunt MA Oxon Paul Hunt was the course founder in 2002, and has been instrumental since that time in ensuring our core philosophy and holistic teaching approach has been rooted in everything we do. Paul developed the first syllabus guideline for GAMSAT and has been pivotal in ensuring that our teaching and all books and course resources have evolved in line with the test each year. He has assembled a core team of dedicated tutors who entwine successfully principles of scientific content with a PBL teaching approach.
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