Newly qualified doctors face ‘recurring cycle of debt’, BMA warns

The British Medical Association (BMA) said that newly qualified doctors have to take part -time jobs to meet the goals because they encounter a “repeating debt cycle”.

The Union claims that some doctors are driving Ubers to generate additional income and working in the bars.

He added that the students with poorers of the poorer have been shot the most and now he called on the government to address the financing gap and to make the career accessible by people as much as possible in the field of medicine.

Students in the final undergraduate years receive less student loans with a NHS scholarship in the following years of graduate medical degree.

According to BMA, this leads to an average of £ 3674 fund drop.

“Many people use these loans to pay and live their rents and live.

“Losing a significant part of this means that students are fighting.

“We have people who maximize loan deposits and maximizes credit cards.

“People have very important debt to finish this degree.”

An average medical student is 12 months of this reduced financing.

However, some graduate students met with their six -year degree programs for up to three years.

Some face displacement expenses before starting their first work in NHS.

The problem is that most of the academic year or the last years starts in mid -August, Mit said Mitchell.

“Then you have this low financing rate until the end of August the following year.

“I know that many of my colleagues have to get credit to pay their rents or they have to get credit agreements to pay their rents.

“There was also a struggle for many people who need to move to a new place where you received this reduced financing rate.

“Many of my friends have already graduated, maximized their credit deposits, and then had to take credit extensions to help them live until they were paid at the end of August.

“It creates this recurrent debt cycle that people really fight to deal with the first salary check.”

Ms. Mitchell said that he knew the new graduates who manage the football matches or that he knew the bar that lasted zero -hour.

“There are people working behind the bars.

“We have people.

“One of my friends is actually working for Uber right now, because it was the only job he could get, he meant he could get some job in his area.”

Ms. Mitchell begins to improve our finance campaign with Henry Budden, co -chairman of BMA.

“What we hear about the campaign is quite common, ‘Every student gets a job, why do you complain so much?’ He said.

“But I think what people are not aware of is actually how intense our course is.

“You are training for this role you are about to start.

“Monday -you are in nine to five hospitals.

“Some universities allow students to make night shifts.

“Some universities allow their students to do so on weekends.

“And then you need to review this settlement, which you learn to be a doctor, for your exams.”

The BMA government calls for medical students to ensure that they get full student financing for all courses.

The Union claims that this will cost the Treasury’s £ 24 million and Student Finance will cost only 0.12% of the British annual loans.

Mrs Mitchell and Mr. Budden warned that “the situation is not sustainable” and yarım nothing to help those who came from the poorer past or to improve the participation in the stopper ”.

“Medicine is longer than many other degrees for a good reason, because we want to ensure that doctors working in NHS have the best possible education,” they added.

“They should only get the appropriate financing to see them for the whole courses at that time.”