Page 2 - ப்ர்யாக்டிகல் தேர்வு News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

I am writing this in response to the news item in your paper of 26 January 2021 under the caption, “GMOA seeks university admission for medical students at the age of 18”. This communication from me is practically from the horse’s mouth; from someone who, so many eons ago in 1965, benefitted by being allowed the privilege of joining the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, as a novice Medical Student, at the tender age of 18 years and two months. I sat the GCE (A/L) Examination in December 1964, at the age of 17 years and five months, offering the four subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany. In or around March 1965 we had the Practical Examination in all those four subjects at the University of Ceylon in Reid Avenue. I think the results of the examination were released around July or August 1965. There were around 250 vacancies for medical students, 150 in the Faculty of Medicine Colombo and 100 in the Faculty of Medicine, Peradeniya. There were only two Fac

Sri lankaNorth westernMinistry of higher educationUniversity educationColombo medical schoolUniversity of ceylonMinistry of educationMedical studentPractical examinationMedicine colomboClass honoursIntern medical officerColombo general hospitalSpecialist consultantSpecialist consultant paediatricianBadulla general hospital