The books also go to the top 300 Cuban medical graduates.

It provides health care facilities to a population of around 12 million, and had produced 5600 medical graduates up to the year 2008.

In 2005, the average starting salary for a medical graduate was £32,086.

As a result, many of the medical graduates were actually unemployed.

The first batch of medical graduates concluded their studies in June 2007.

Each year more than 20,000 medical graduates across the country compete for the positions.

The result is that two types of medical graduate have emerged - one with far more scientific knowledge than the other.

More than a third of the slots went to foreign medical graduates or remained empty.

But the ability to use that tool may be a dying art, according to a study of 453 recent medical graduates.

In France, it is common for new medical graduates to sign a written oath.