Once, I was discussing selection to medical school and the design of teaching, assessment and the curriculum with an admissions dean. She said: 'For 90% of students, you could lock them in a submarine for 5 years and when you opened the hatch, they'd come out doctors. The purpose of medical schools is to deal with the other 10%'. My involvement with dental students and postgraduate dental training is making me worried that dental schools are determined to test this theory to its limits.
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