Regulations, 2023

L.N. 219 of 2023

EDUCATION ACT

(CAP. 327)

Doctor of Medicine and Surgery – M.D. – Degree Course (Amendment)

Regulations, 2023

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred upon him by articles 74 (5) and 75 (6) of the

Education Act (Cap. 327), the Chancellor of the University of Malta has promulgated

the following regulations made by the Senate of the University of Malta by virtue of

the powers conferred upon it by articles 75 (3) and 79 (b) of the said Act

Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Doctor of Medicine and Surgery

– M.D. – Degree Course (Amendment) Regulations, 2023 and shall be read and

construed as one with the Doctor of Medicine and Surgery – M.D. – Degree Course

Regulations 2013, published as Legal Notice 310 of 2013, hereinafter referred to as

the “principal regulations.”

Applicability

(i) Regulations 3 and 4 of these regulations shall be applicable for courses

commencing in October 2023 or later.

(ii) Regulation 5 of these regulations shall be applicable to students enrolling

on the Bachelor Degree in October 2025 or later.

Amendment to regulation 4 of the principal regulations

In regulation 4 of the principal regulations for the words “a pass in the

Secondary Education Certificate in Maltese” or “a pass in the SEC in Maltese” there

shall be substituted the words “a pass in the Secondary Education Certificate in

Maltese at Grade 5 or better”.

The following sub-paragraph (k) shall be added after sub-paragraph (j) of

paragraph (4)(i) of regulation 4 of the principal regulations

“(k) a Bachelor of Science (Honours) with a classification of Second Class

Honours or better in Physics, Medical Physics and Radiation Protection; and”

Amendment to regulation 8 of the principal regulations

For paragraph (1) of regulation 8 of the principal regulations there shall be

substituted the following

“8. (1) At the end of Year 2 of the Course only, students who successfully

complete all the study-units of the first two years of the Course (the Pre-Clinical Part)

with an average mark of at least 70% in each of the first two years of the Course, shall

be eligible to apply to join the Course leading to the Bachelor Degree. Students who

fail to complete a study-unit/s that can be assessed only once during the academic

year, and hence no supplementary session is possible, or students who are prevented

for a reason considered valid by Senate from being assessed in this study-unit/s, shall

be allowed to progress conditionally to the Bachelor Degree. Such students shall be

required to successfully complete any study-unit/s which has/have been so referred

during the intercalated year.”

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