BMA Cymru Wales New Junior Doctors Video - "we Want The Best To Be The Best"

Main Category: Medical Students / Training
Article Date: 15 Dec 2008 - 0:00 PST

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A new video, aimed at medical students is helping to put Wales on the training map.

BMA Cymru Wales has worked in partnership with the Wales Deanery for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education, to produce a DVD for students, giving an invaluable insight into medical training in Wales.

The aim of the video is to "sell" Wales as a key destination to study medicine and to attract more junior doctors to apply, to complete their postgraduate training here.

The series of short films focuses on five different specialties - Anaesthesia, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Pathology and Psychiatry. It was shot on location at hospitals around Wales, with junior doctors and their seniors revealing in their own words, some of the highlights of training, working and living, in Wales.

Welsh Secretary of the BMA, Richard Lewis says "Wales has a great deal to offer both in terms of quality of life and the quality of training provided and this is illustrated throughout the series of short films. The nation can more than "hold its own" with the best of the rest that the UK has to offer."

Professor Derek Gallen, Dean of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education in Wales is also delighted with the result. "This film demonstrates that current doctors in specialist training recognise the value Wales can offer to junior doctors and they are keen to encourage others to follow suit. After watching the DVD, I hope that those doctors applying for specialist training in 2009, regard Wales as their number one choice."

All doctors who are short-listed for interview will receive the film, as part of their information pack.

The DVD is also available to view on-line at www.doctorstrainingwales.tv

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