From UK DAILY MAIL
Last week the Mail on Sunday revealed
how hundreds of foreign doctors working in the NHS are routinely
failing key medical exams.
Medical
associations want doctors to be allowed six attempts at passing the
tests, rather than the current four, because the success rates are so
poor.
The revelation
raised fears trainee medics, mainly from India, Pakistan and Nigeria,
are not suitably qualified to treat patients, despite having worked for
the NHS for three years before taking the exam.
Until
they pass the exams, which qualify them to practise independently as
hospital physicians or GPs, trainees continue to see patients – under
supervision – in placements at hospitals and GP surgeries.
The
Mail on Sunday reported how the figures showed foreign doctors are
substantially more likely to fail than UK graduates, with communication
cited as one of the problems.
While
just nine per cent of British doctors fail to pass the knowledge and
practical exams, more than 63 per cent of foreign doctors do not reach
the standard to pass.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254824/Three-quarters-doctors-struck-Britain-trained-abroad.html#ixzz2GXUi3yot
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