There needs to be a supplementary poster: once youve become a doctor, how to get a job. Photo Workers.
Foundation year 1 doctor members of the British Medical Association (BMA) have voted by a huge margin to strike over unemployment and lack of training opportunities. The first strike will run from 14 to 19 November, unless the government resumes talks in good faith.
These doctors have recently graduated from medical school: 97 per cent voted to support strike action. One-third of all resident doctors (formerly known as doctors in training or junior doctors) surveyed by the BMA in July had been unable to secure substantive, or even regular locum, work from August onwards.
Around 30,000 doctors have to compete for just 10,000 places in the first round of specialty training, NHS England figures show. In psychiatry, the worst affected specialty, more than 10,000 doctors applied for 500 places. And in general practice five doctors apply for every general practitioner training post.
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