The British Medical Association (BMA) is urging the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to collaborate with partners to ensure more equitable access to academic public health training.
The BMA's Resident Doctors Committee, Public Health Medicine Registrars Subcommittee, and Joint Academic Trainees Subcommittee have expressed concerns over changes that will limit opportunities for resident doctors in public health to participate in academic training in England.
Public health is a medical specialty with a well-established multiprofessional route of entry.
The BMA is calling for support to address the potential worsening of the medical recruitment crisis due to these changes.
BMA calls for equitable access to academic public health training to mitigate the medical recruitment crisis.