"Hamish" wrote in message
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"Jim Webster" wrote in message
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yes, this is criminal.
The question has to be asked, can we not train our own because
there just
aren't the suitable people, or because government cannot get it
within
budget? Either way it looks pretty bad



I think it is in the selection for training. Many Engineers I have
met
over the years had considered medical training when they were in
their teens
and had been advised out of the idea by careers teachers. The reason
being
that it was difficult to get into medical school and they did not
have the
right educational track record.
So in the UK selection is front end and many people who could have
made
medical practioners are never able to prove theirselves.

Perhaps overseas there is more opportunity to enter training and
proof of
capability is passing the training.

The front end selection was I believe something driven by the
union of
doctors who did not want the market over supplied and cause
enemployment in
existing doctors.

I can confirm that a colleage who was Dean of the Medical Faculty at
my University gave me the same information.

Franz