The Treasury Committee is reviewing whether the student loan system is fair and wants to hear from doctors and medical students. But you only have a short window to tell them what it’s actually like.
Doctors are often hit harder by student loans due to longer training and delayed earnings.
When responding to the survey, you may want to mention...
• the cost of longer medical training
• interest and repayments early in your career
• the combined impact of loans and tax
• how debt affects morale, retention and progression
The survey closes Tuesday 14 April.
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@Anisocyte@Jean_Jeannie1@Mary_Tom11@medicalmodelbri@DrJoFranklin@parthaskar RCP host the question writing group, which is essentially a voluntary commitment, so presumably they had low turnout and reduced the threshold to attract more people to the group. I believe the group is also open to doctors who have worked with PAs.
Pls RT: If you are a PA or PA student wanting to apply to medicine, feel free to leave your details here to be added to an online mentorship group ran by myself and other PAs who have gone on to study medicine: https://t.co/v14tKmB5b7 pls share among networks
Pls RT: If you are a PA or PA student wanting to apply to medicine, feel free to leave your details here to be added to an online mentorship group ran by myself and other PAs who have gone on to study medicine: https://t.co/v14tKmB5b7 pls share among networks
@iDrSunny Totally free, based on voluntary time contribution from myself and other PAs turned medics as we all wish to support our former colleagues in applying to medical school
@TCL3000 Can you get universal credit if you have a mortgage? Also I wouldn’t consider it ‘lucky’ you don’t get gifted a mortgage you have to work hard to save enough for the deposit in the first place!
Today I had a conversation with a PA who would love to be able to study medicine. But they are single parent and have a mortgage. Current funding arrangements make it *impossible* for someone in this situation to retrain and become a doctor. This is not ok.
@Megsenmumdr@Cray_tweets1@jewett6a@2manypeople4me@ollieburtonmed Yeah so reading more about it, it looks like the curriculum was developed jointly with and approved by the GMC informally (as they weren’t regulator at the time) but that doesn’t necessarily mean individual courses have been assessed by GMC as meeting standards…
@2manypeople4me@jewett6a@ollieburtonmed@Cray_tweets1@Megsenmumdr Yeah I do recall the university being annoyed about the level of contact time and someone higher up coming and telling us we should be grateful and not complain about course disorganisation because other masters courses have 12 hours contact time per week 🤷🏽♀️