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.
As a medical specialty, public health has a well-established multiprofessional route of entry.
The BMA is calling upon the NIHR to work with partners to support more equitable access to academic public health training.
Author's summary: Changes to public health training may worsen medical recruitment crisis.