BMJ  2005;330:363 (12 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7487.363-a

Letter

Academic medicine: who is it for?

Country of origin affects potential career in UK academic medicine

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EDITOR—Reichenbach and Brown discuss the important issue of discrimination by sex.1 The same applies to overseas trainees (mostly non-white) wanting to enter a career in academic medicine in the United Kingdom.

Medical think-tanks in the United Kingdom often complain about the lack of good clinicians who are interested in academic medicine and research. Research and academic training also count towards the selection of specialist registrars, but the Home Office does not recognise this as medical training. Doctors without residence permits do not have a fair chance to obtain research posts. Instead, non-residents in research posts need a work permit, which can be given only on the condition that there is no candidate with eligibility through residence, even if the non-resident is more suited for the post.

Non-residents have to make do with inferior posts, as so called research registrars, research fellows, etc, which exist only to exploit them . . . [Full text of this article]

Arvindan Veiraiah, specialist registrar in clinical pharmacology

Llandough Hospital, Penarth CF64 2XX drveiraiah@doctors.org.uk


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