What do you mean there isn't a job?

After five, long, painful and very expensive years at medical school you hear the bad news; 'you haven't got a job'. Luckily we then wake up.

It seems this horror story may soon become a reality, in the UK at least. The UKFPO (UK foundation programme, which organises our first two jobs) has a surplus of students to F1 jobs. Oh dear. After the amount of money the government pays on training us, the effort we have all but in and five years of our lives, it seems we still might not get a job.

According to some this will remove the complacency in some doctors. If they're that complacent they wouldn't pass med school. That is the whole point of our constant assessments, to weed out those not competent to be a doctor. After passing our finals, the least of our worries should be finding a job. What with all the difficulties of the new job and all.

I feel this would be such a missed opportunity for the NHS, as very competent people have to miss the UK net, and jump abroad to find a job. Other countries are loving the prospect - free doctors. I think the only solution to this is to reduce the intake of medical students, because with the age of austerity we are in at the moment, I can't see a sudden increase in jobs any time soon...

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