Shortage of medical doctors in the NHS

Thread Starter Shortage of medical doctors in the NHS Follow 4 days ago 4d ago Quote: Originally Posted by bea_murray0 The gov can't exactly increase the cap on med school places drastically and suddenly since there aren't enough training posts. Even now there's a couple of hundred med graduates every year that aren't allocated an FY1 place, so it's simply not realistic to increase med school places by 50,000 overnight. Also bear in mind that international graduates can be (and are being) employed to bridge that gap! I'm also not sure minimum grades will be decreased since medical schools have to make sure that applicants are likely to be able to cope with the academic demands of the degree. Although med schools could possibly decrease A level requirements in favour of increasing UCAT/BMAT cutoffs. Also bear in mind there is no shortage of suitable applicants! Plenty meet the grades, have dece...
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