UL Celebrates Conferring of 146 Students of Medicine & Clinical Therapies

The University of Limerick celebrated the graduation of 146 students today from the Graduate Entry Medical School (GEMS) and Clinical Therapies Department. Among the graduates 94 doctors were conferred with their medical degrees as they became the fourth graduating class of the Graduate Entry Medical School at the University of Limerick. 52 Clinical Therapies graduands received their awards - 26 from the MSc in Occupational Therapy and 26 from the BSc in Physiotherapy.
 
Established in 2007, the Graduate Entry Medical School Programme at UL is open to graduates from any discipline and employs practical and interactive approaches to learning.
 
Among the doctors who graduated at UL today are students with undergraduate degrees varying from zoology, anthropology to music and archaeology.  The programme is also the only medical education programme in the country founded on the modern pedagogical principles of Problem Based Learning (PBL).  PBL encourages team-working and self-directed enquiry, both skills being vital for their future careers in the fast moving world of medicine.