The Royal Colleges know that the proposed 5 year time frame for IMGs to be eligible for training is exploitation to put it mildly.
Yet, the BMA who is supposed to represent the interest of all doctors are championing this exploitation.
The very definition of an Autoimmune disease!
if the UK wanted to guarantee jobs for UkGs it should create enough posts. it shouldn't solve the problem by lowering selection standards or discriminating against applicants solely because they trained abroad 🤷♀️
The @TheBMA agenda committee in the ongoing ARM has rejected all emergency motions by IMGs. It has instead accepted 7 emergency motions on the SAME TOPIC that has been extensively discussed during the conference.
@TheBMA is showing itself to be loudly&proudly anti-IMG.
The battle was lost the moment these people convinced LEDs to strike with promise of 2 years grand fathering.
I saw the conviction they spoke with.
Lots of talk about competition ratio but no one actually mentioned that they were getting up to 75% of jobs. Well played.
To make it all worse, these LED jobs are not only being quickly eroded to create roles for the members the BMA has decided deserve progression, but the few remaining LED posts are now being "unofficially" prioritised for UKMGs.
We have even seen the stories online and have personal experiences of local BMA representatives at the Trusts leading the push for this prioritisation. We have also seen it in the Oriel job adverts now having requirements that only UKMGs could possess.
We are now looking at a situation where LEDs are completely shut out of training, contracts are being terminated to create space for others, & even the scraps left behind are prioritised for UKMGs. This is beyond creating a two-tier NHS and an underclass of service-provision cogs, it is an organisation taking ACTIVE steps to strip away IMG livelihoods and push them out of the country.
The BMA’s coat of arms proudly reads Salus populi suprema lex: "the welfare of the people is the supreme law". Yet, the union has completely abandoned this principle for its international members, members who make up 42% of the licensed medical workforce. Whoncontribute millions in union dues & serve as the indispensable backbone of the healthcare system. It is actively trying to legislate them into extinction.
Every other day, an IMG with a family urgently posts online looking for work, entirely abandoned by Trusts they served for years after last-minute promises fall through. In the end, the organisation will look back at this period & wonder if pulling the ladder up on its roughly 42% IMG members was worth losing its institutional integrity & their trust. @TheBMA
I read through post. Well sorry for the loss of your friend. But I presume you are not a cardiologist and I can see you asking them to give him aspirin even way before oxygenation. See as a medic it’s preferable you stop doing phone call management so far a medical team is managing. And by the way not all MI need cath lab.
He might be your friend but you don’t what sort he was dealing with either STEMI or NSTEMI. You didn’t mention if a cardiologist even reviewed. Cos sending him on 5 hour journey just cos there is wasn’t a cath lab is doing more harm. Pain killer(opioids), oxygen, nitrates and aspirin with some blood thinners and good observation could help. Yes Nigeria cardiology is not doing well with regards to defib and cath lab.
I’m not a fan of medical doctors doing on phone prescriptions even when the patient is in the hands of another physician who’s already attending to him except if you a specialist in that field and you are the one managing to give history and old records about his health history.
My class was best in MWACP of her group and couldn't even afford the flight to go and receive her award after paying the exam and graduation fees etc
Doctors are jumping bike and borrowing to pay school fees of their kids
Big respect 👏🏾 to everyone still fighting this. The fact that IMGs have to keep making the case for fair progression inside their own union is grim, but it also shows why the argument cannot just disappear.
I've always reiterated that it is a conflict of interest at its core. If a union is comfortable lobbying against the progression of IMGs while still benefiting from their active membership, then it's not just defending members, it's clearly drawing a line & choosing which members matter & which ones deserve career progression. That's how you end up with a two-tier NHS where there's a permanent underclass of Drs who are useful enough to keep the service running, but apparently not worth letting up the ladder.
"If Tinubu cannot fix Nigeria… he should resign."
Ikye Okwuakwu has criticised delays in repatriating Nigerians stranded in South Africa, saying many lack housing and support, and that the consul general’s praise of President Tinubu is not good enough.
@LuyiDee God bless you for this!
@TheBMA have not been fair to IMG despite paying £46 monthly to protect my interest.
Shame on everyone who have supported this draconian policy.