Nick Raine-Fenning
Course Director
Joined: 27 May 2006
Posts: 1852
Location: Nottingham
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 Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject: Update on International Medical Graduates from the RCOG |
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Jim Dornan, Vice-President has just sent this e-mail which is very encouraging as regards the future position of International Medical Graduates in the UK:
| Quote: | Good news at last! After the sudden closing of the doors on IMGs in April this year and following a lot of pressure from our College and others, the door is creaking open again.
The government has announced the TWES/MTI scheme (Training and Work Experience Scheme / Medical Training Initiatives). This allows us to reintroduce the Overseas Doctors Training Fellowship and the Double Sponsorship Scheme, the latter immediately.
In future, IMGs whose GMC registration has been sponsored by the RCOG, can come to this country for up to twenty-four months on a work permit. The posts do not have to be supernumerary. The only two criteria that the Home Office are particularly keen to impose are, that the work permits should be for less than twenty-four months and that if the graduate is doing any direct clinical work, equivalent to a Health Service employee, they should be paid an equivalent salary. These changes are to be welcomed and by using creativity when designing contracts, most educational, training, experiential opportunities should be realised.
We are hopeful that the Deaneries will be able to continue to identify positions to enable us to reinstate the Double Sponsorship Scheme – watch this space – and if so, we can restart this in August 2007.
With the loss of the Part I MRCOG reciprocity we have an opportunity to create a new framework for appropriately educated IMGs to this country. This should give us the opportunity to include those who have not attempted MRCOG Part 1 exam, but are well qualified, to come for subspecialty training, and perhaps training in the new Advanced Training Skills Modules where capacity allows.
It may be late in the day but, with the increasing number of UK graduates (numbers have doubled from 4,500 in 2005 to 9,000 in 2009) it has now been possible for the government to take the high moral ground and realise some sixty years after the inception of the Health Service that it is wrong to take doctors from the under-resourced world. Late in the day but true, even though they have and continue to be the backbone of the National Health Service.
We are all particularly grateful to the President who at every government level has fought hard for these new regulations. He and all of us particularly care about IMGs for two reasons. Firstly, our traditional role as a provider of education and training opportunities for IMGs to increase their ability to acquire postgraduate examinations and skills and secondly, to be honest, because we need them, and will continue to need them for the short to medium term at least to support our services in the UK.
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If you want further information or would like to comment about the RCOG's Double Sponsorship Scheme or if you would like more information about the RCOG International office, please email
letterfromsussexplace@rcog.org.uk
The new MTI Regulations can be found here.
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