UWI medical students score big in final exams

There was high success rate among 2025 graduating medical student at the University of the West Indies (The UWI), Mona.

One hundred and thirty-four medical students sat the examinations at Mona, of which 125 (93.3 per cent) were successful and only nine or 6.7 per cent unsuccessful and will be required to do a resit of the examinations.

The majority, 96 (71.6 per cent) of the medical students who sat the examinations at Mona are from Jamaica, the remainder were from the Caribbean region with a few international students.

The results were announced Thursday at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Mona Pledge Ceremony for the MB.BS Class of 2025 at the Mona Campus.

Students sat the MB.BS Final Examinations held in May/June 2025. These were also regional examinations held at the Cave Hill, Mona, and St Augustine campuses, as well as the Clinical School of Medicine & Research in The Bahamas.

On Thursday there were wild applauses for Caymanian student Brianna Bodden, who took all three prizes awarded.

The prizes were the Professor Luois Grant Prize in Microbiology (for Best Performance in Microbiology); Professor S.E.H. Brooks Memorial Prize (for Best Performance in Pathology); and the Pathology/Microbiology Medal (for Best Overall academic performance in Pathology and Microbiology Clerkship at the Mona Campus).

The newly minted doctors were given the opportunity to recite the Hippocratic Oath, which, according to a Google post, is the pledge taken by physicians, outlining ethical principles for medical practice.

“The UWI continues to train medical doctors for the region and for the wider world as was notable in the examinations,” the Faculty of Medical Sciences said. Loop News