Just the tonic Roisin joins in medical first [Independent.ie]
- Published: 04 June 2010
Roisin Osborne and John O'Flynn were short of points in their Leaving Certificate to get their top college choice of medicine -- but it hasn't stopped them becoming doctors.
They are among a new breed of second-chance medicine students who will be bringing more to the job than what years in medical school have taught them. Roisin, from Sandycove, Co Dublin, and John, from Inniscarra, Co Cork, were among the first graduate-entry medicine students to be conferred at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI) yesterday.
Having missed out on medicine in 2002, Roisin studied Spanish and Economics, at Trinity College, Dublin. Although not her first choice, the 26-year-old said: "They were subjects I was really interested in."
Also in 2002, when John (26) found himself short 15 points for medicine, he plumped for chemical engineering, at University College, Cork (UCC).
