BMA negotiator calls for more male medical students

A member of the BMA's general practitioners' negotiating committee has said that medical schools should discriminate in favour of male applicants in response to growing concerns about doctor shortages.

Dr Peter Holden, a negotiator on the committee, said there was a “sound case” for considering biasing entry towards young men applying to medical schools. Currently 58% of applicants and 59% of successful entrants to medical school are women, according to figures for 2001 …