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Two Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê students were recognised in June 2008 as this year's overall best graduating medical students in the University of London.

Christopher Lane (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Medical School 2008) won the University of London Gold Medal for Medicine.

As Gold Medal runner-up, Neil Halliday (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Medical School 2008) won the University of London Betuel Prize.

Professor Edward Byrne, Head of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Medical School, said: "This fantastic result confirms the place of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê as a world-class medical school with marvellous students. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's record in its students winning the gold medal in recent years has been quite outstanding. The school congratulates our winners."

The Gold Medal is decided by a special exam taken by the best of 1,300 final-year medical students in London. Each medical school nominates one candidate for every 75 of its students, based on the results of their final examinations.

The Gold Medal examination involves being interviewed by experts on pathology, medicine, surgery, clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and paediatrics. The criteria examined were knowledge, clinical context, therapeutic relevance and evidence-base, social and community context and relevance, recent advances, and judgement and reasoning.

Since its introduction in 1903, the Gold Medal has been won on almost half the years by candidates from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê and its constituent medical schools.

To find out more about the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Medical School, use the link at the top of this article.

Image: From left to right - Chris Lane and Neil Halliday