Episode #7
Is Medicine Still Worth It?
Would you still choose medicine, knowing what it costs to get in and what it takes to stay? Medical students are graduating with growing debt. Resident doctors say they are paid less, working more and learning less than the doctors who trained before them. And for years, thousands finishing foundation training found no job waiting for them. In this episode of BAPIO HealthCross Talks: Making the NHS Better, we speak to Professor Sanjiv Ahluwalia, Head of the School of Medicine at Anglia Ruskin University, about whether medicine still offers young people the career it once promised, and what it will take to make sure it does. Discussed in this episode: 1. The real cost of medical student debt over a five or six year course 2. Pay, morale and the daily pressures shaping resident doctors' working lives 3. The training bottleneck that left thousands chasing too few posts, and how that has begun to shift 4. Whether the NHS is training doctors it then fails to employ 5. What AI means for how the next generation of doctors is taught and tested Since this conversation was recorded, resident doctors accepted a government offer on pay and training places, and the Medical Training Prioritisation Act has come into force to ease the bottleneck at the centre of this episode. Whether that is enough is still an open question. This is not only a conversation about doctors. It is a conversation about who will be there to treat patients in ten years' time. Guest: Professor Sanjiv Ahluwalia Host: Loveena Tandon YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@loveenatandonproductions Podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1807736085#NHS #Doctors #Medicine #ResidentDoctors #Healthcare #MedicalEducation #NHSWorkforce #HealthCrossTalks #BAPIO #LoveenaTandon
