Medical schools across the UK are to fast-track qualifications for final-year students to enable them to work for the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic. The University of Bristol will be one of the first medical schools in the country to do so, qualifying more than 220 final-year medical students on Friday. Professor Jane Norman, Dean of Health Sciences, said: 'Medical schools across the nation are working hard to ensure that their final-year students are fully trained and ready for qualification. 'We will be one of, if not the first medical school to qualify our students, but over the next few months many medical schools will do the same. Ben Turner, one of those due to qualify on Friday, said: 'After a minimum of five years of study, final-year medical students possess fundamental skills to support our NHS colleagues at this time of national crisis.

Source: Daily Mail April 01, 2020 14:07 UTC