Deferring and Supplementary Exams Check the Faculty of Medicine for regulations about supplementary and deferred exams. For example, if you defer your exams for any reason, you forfeit your right to supplementary exams. A good performance in a viva may improve the student's mark allowing the examiners to upgrade and pass the student. Students who sit a deferred or supplementary exam may receive a viva in place of a practical exam if there are only a small number of candidates. Contact Dr McMenamin for details.
Every year there are two or three prized in anatomy.
The top scoring students in anatomy tend to have very similar marks in which case they will receive a viva to help examiners determine the recipients of the prizes.