Changes to Academic Public Health Training
The BMA is calling upon the NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) to work with partners to support more equitable access to academic public health training.
The BMA resident doctors committee, public health medicine registrars subcommittee, and joint academic trainees subcommittee are concerned about changes that will limit opportunities for resident doctors in public health to participate in academic training in England.
Public health is a medical specialty with a well-established multiprofessional route of entry.
The BMA believes these changes will worsen the medical recruitment crisis.
Changes to academic public health training will worsen the medical recruitment crisis.
Author's summary: BMA calls for equitable access to academic public health training.