In 2024, applications for IMT outstripped the number of posts available by 73%.
βWe risk abandoning a generation of UK medical graduates to an uncertain future. We urgently need to understand why competition ratios are changing so quickly and improve the way we shortlist, interview and appoint doctors in training.β
Chair of our Student Foundation Doctor Network,
@SeanCoghlan_, speaks out as we publish a new position statement on competition ratios.
In our new position statement, weβre calling on the UK government and NHS England to take this situation seriously and bring forward solutions in time for the 2026 recruitment round:
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