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Healthcare professional education - return on investments
Dr Kieran Walsh
The high cost of medical education means that there is increasing pressure on funders, providers and learners to ensure that medical education delivers return on investment. A lot of UK graduates who leave the UK in their mid 20s will have received a medical education worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and will have not have delivered much in return. We need to make the UK a more attractive place to work as a doctor. This will mean better training programmes, improved terms and conditions, better job prospects, and portfolio careers which might involve a blend of education, research and clinical practice. Some of this would cost money, but the return on investment would be a more contented and stable workforce that wants to stay in the UK.
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