{"id":1407,"date":"2025-07-14T14:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/resident-doctor-training-debate\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:56:15","slug":"resident-doctor-training-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/resident-doctor-training-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK referenced ahead of resident doctor training debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK has contributed to a House of Lords briefing ahead of a debate on the Government\u2019s plans for resident doctor training posts.\r\n\r\nBlogs written by members of the Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) student committee have been referenced in the document.\r\n\r\nThe blogs explore the issue of bottlenecks in speciality training and the impact it is having on people.\r\n\r\nThe House of Lords document says: \u201cThe Doctors\u2019 Association UK, a campaigning group of doctors and medical students, has warned that some medics fear unemployment due to high competition for places in their chosen specialisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resident doctor training<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt has described how portfolios are built to apply for certain specialisms, leaving applicants ill-equipped to apply for other placements outside their area of interest.\u201d\r\n\r\nIt comes ahead of a short debate in the House of Lords debate on Wednesday (17 July).\r\n\r\nLord Lansley (Conservative) will ask His Majesty\u2019s Government what assessment they have made of the ratio of medical training posts in each specialty relative to the number of foundation year medical students choosing that specialty.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/medical-student-committee-bottlenecks-in-speciality-training\/\">Read the medical student committee blogs<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lordslibrary.parliament.uk\/competition-for-specialist-training-programmes-in-the-nhs-sector-views-and-the-governments-plans-for-resident-doctor-training-posts\/\">Read the House of Lords document<\/a>.\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/\">joining DAUK<\/a> or donating to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\">our GoFundMe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK has contributed to a House of Lords briefing ahead of a debate on the Government\u2019s plans for resident doctor training posts. Blogs written by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[391],"tags":[647,393,700],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students","tag-medical-student","tag-medical-students","tag-resident-doctors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}