Letters
Medicine’s social class problem
Increasing applications for medical school from disadvantaged students
BMJ 2019; 367 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l6769 (Published 06 December 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;367:l6769
- Richard A Beckett, general practice specialty trainee year 3 and former teaching fellow
- Moseley Avenue Surgery, 109 Moseley Avenue, Coventry CV6 1HS, UK
- r.a.beckett88{at}gmail.com
White discusses efforts to widen participation in medical school to include those from disadvantaged backgrounds.1 To ensure buy-in from all major stakeholders we need to emphasise the benefits to the profession and the health service of improving social mobility in medicine. And we need to tackle the gap in applications to, not just attendance at, medical schools between students of the highest and …
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