BMJ  2007;335:1066-1067 (24 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.39402.620752.DB

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Donaldson defends decision not to resign over recruitment chaos

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England's chief medical officer, Liam Donaldson, has told MPs that he was right not to resign over the chaotic recruitment system for junior doctors.

Professor Donaldson, giving evidence to the parliamentary health select committee, said he would not take personal and sole responsibility for the problems faced by junior doctors this year when they applied for posts under the new Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) programme.

The committee, in the first evidence session of its inquiry into the MMC programme, asked why Professor Donaldson had not felt it appropriate to leave his job, considering the scale of the problems. Thousands of junior doctors failed to find training places through the programme, and many complained that the new system failed to take proper account of their experience and achievements.

Professor Donaldson told the committee: "The experience for the junior doctors concerned was traumatic and distressing and created a lot of anxiety, and . . . [Full text of this article]

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