1. Psychosexual problems;Stanley, E.;BrMedj,1987
2. Primary and secondary amenorrhoea;Franks, S.
3. 10 final year clinical medical students at Cambridge failed their qualifying examinations. Eight immediately chose to sit the examination of the Society of Apothecaries of London, a body that does not run a medical course but which has the right to set qualifying medical examinations under a charter granted by King James I. Seven ofthe students passed the four parts of the examination straight away, including both students who failed more than one subject in the Cambridge examinations. The eighth student passed the society's exam three months later;In,1982
4. I reported these facts in the journal World Medicine, together with the suggestions that they offered prima facie evidence of a "second rate qualification" and that the General Medical Council, which is responsible for overseeing examination standards, should take some action. The General Medical Council duly wrote and asked what evidence there was for these assertions, and I repeated the story. I remarked that the council, which collects the annual examination returns from licensing bodies-universities and nonuniversity licensing bodies-was in an excellent position to collect further evidence. It could publish the figures for students who fail at their university and pass under one of the non-university licensing bodies (the Society of Apothecaries of London, the English Conjoint Board, and the Scottish Triple Qualification) and vice versa