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Unemployment looms for junior doctors

Last Modified: 05 Feb 2007
By: Victoria Macdonald

Some 6,000 junior doctors, whose training was paid for by the public, could be unemployed due to the Government's new training system.

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Modernising Medical Careers was designed to revolutionise the way doctors are taught.

They apply on-line for a placement but face an agonising wait to see whether a job exists and whereabouts it might be.

The deadline for applications was extended until today because of online registration problems - and many trainees are simply going abroad for work.