Adrian O’Dowd , 2025-05-21 14:41:00
Disillusion and a lack of enthusiasm among medical students in Northern Ireland has “worrying implications” for its health service, the BMA has warned.
The association said that students it had heard from believed that doctors were no longer valued or respected for their work and that clinicians were underpaid when compared with other areas. Some students were dreading their future work because of current conditions in the NHS, which is why many were planning to leave the region or the UK to work elsewhere.
The testimony was supplied in responses to a BMA survey of final and penultimate year students at Northern Ireland’s two medical schools, asking them about their career intentions after they graduated. The response rate was 24% (191/770).1
One student said, “I honestly …
