Doctors march in row over training reforms

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Doctors march in row over training reforms

Amelia Hill Sunday March 18, 2007 The Observer

Thousands of doctors marched in London and Glasgow yesterday in protest at reforms to medical training. The new process, called Modernising Medical Careers (MMC), has come in for widespread criticism from the BMA, royal colleges, senior medics and trainees.

At least 30,000 junior doctors have applied for up to 22,000 specialist posts under MMC, which it was hoped would speed up training and offer a fairer way of placing junior doctors in oversubscribed training roles.

The government has already bowed to pressure, announcing that 5,000 more doctors would now be interviewed.