30 December 2012

UK: 63% FOREIGN DOCS FAIL EXAM.

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.

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