BMA takes steps to rename ȷunior doctors as “resident doctors”

BMA members have called on the association to end its use of the term “junior doctor” and replace it with “resident doctor” from September.Attendees at the BMA’s annual representative meeting in Belfast on 24 June voted in favour of a motion which called on the association to rename its Junior Doctors Committee the Resident Doctors Committee. The change will also apply to the Northern Ireland, Scottish, and Welsh junior doctors committees and 13 regional junior doctors committees in England.The move comes after the BMA conducted a survey of its junior doctor members in February about a proposal to rename them resident doctors.1 The change was supported by the majority of those asked.2BMA Junior Doctors Committee co-chairs Robert Laurenson and Vivek Trivedi said, “There is nothing junior about what we do and there never has been. At last year’s annual representative meeting doctors committed to remove this demeaning title and we…
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