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The Medical Training Application Service (MTAS, pronounced em-tass) was an on-line application system set up under the auspices of Modernising Medical Careers in 2007 and used for the selection of Foundation House Officers and Specialty Registrars, and allocating them to jobs in the UK. [1]
Various titles (such as senior consultant, clinical director, medical director, lead consultant etc.) exist for consultants who have particular responsibilities for the overall management of the hospital or some part thereof. In the UK all doctors including consultants have the right to undertake private medical work.
The period of being a resident doctor starts when they qualify as a medical practitioner following graduation with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree and start the UK Foundation Programme. It culminates in a post as a consultant, a general practitioner (GP), or becoming a SAS Doctor, such as a specialty doctor or Specialist post.
Critics argue that the UK’s limited medical school capacity exacerbates workforce shortages in the NHS and forces students to seek education abroad. Some experts have proposed increasing government support for international training pathways, where students study at accredited European medical schools and return to work in the NHS.
The United Kingdom Medical Students Association is a nationally based student-doctor collaboration which unites medical societies and their student members across different universities in the UK. The current (2017) president is Andrew Cole, and the vice president is Michael Grant.
The British International Doctors Association (BIDA) is a UK-based medical organisation that represents international doctors in the United Kingdom. [4] [5]Previously known as the Overseas Doctors Association (ODA), the organisation updated its name to BIDA in 1999 to be more inclusive to international-origin doctors who may have qualified in the UK.
The GMC took on its role on 1 April 2010 following its merger with the former Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board. From 1995 to 2005, hospital doctors' training was assessed and deemed to be complete by the Specialist Training Authority (STA), which was formed by the combined Royal Colleges. [ 2 ]
Medical tests. Articles about medical tests themselves should be categorised in subcategories of Category:Medical tests based on the type of sample tested (e.g. Category:Blood tests). Diagnostic imaging should be categorised into subcategories of Category:Medical imaging (e.g. Category:Radiography for X-ray based imaging).