Junior UK Doctors Found Themselves Jobless And In Debt

Posted by Prudence on March 3, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Good thing I didn’t apply for a specialty training in the United Kingdom. Poor fellas. This can really be shattering to one’s budding career, considering that each and everyone must have invested thousands of dollars just to be able to be medical practitioners.

Here’s a snippet of the article:

Thousands of young doctors have been left without jobs because a new NHS training system has gone “disastrously wrong”, it was disclosed yesterday.

As much as £2 billion has been spent on the training of up to 8,000 doctors who find themselves without a new job under a Government initiative. Such is the fury at the scheme, called Modernising Medical Careers (MMC), that doctors have renamed it “Massive Medical Cull”.

It costs £250,000 to train a doctor and the “shambles” is said to be blighting the careers of dedicated young men and women who may now leave the NHS. Many are also saddled with debts of more than £40,000 after funding their training. The Daily Telegraph has been inundated with letters and emails from despairing doctors and their parents who “feel like crying”. This comes a day after this newspaper reported that three out of four trusts were restricting patients’ treatment because of the NHS financial crisis.

Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, is preparing for further NHS closures by sending managers guidance on how to deal with patients’ protests. The latest crisis has come about because there were only 22,000 jobs for 30,000 junior doctors. The glut in applicants was caused by the introduction of a system where those who started training two years ago are competing for the same jobs as those who began three or four years ago.

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