Trainers need more support if medical school expansion is to succeed, GMC warns

The General Medical Council has warned that the planned expansion in medical school places in the UK will fail if trainers are not better supported, after its annual survey showed that half are at moderate or high risk of burnout.1The new government is committed to supporting the NHS’s long term workforce plan in England, which includes increasing the number of medical students. A GMC report of the survey findings says that this means there will soon be many more postgraduate trainees coming into a system that is already operating at maximum capacity.“For these plans—alongside those in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales—to succeed, additional capacity needs to be created with the expansion of the educator workforce. This must be accompanied by better support for trainers to avoid compounding the issue with a retention challenge,” it said.The GMC’s national training survey was answered by over 52 000 doctors in training and more…
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