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Asian females excel at British medical faculties by Reggie Fernando, our London Correspondent A study carried out by Oxford University's UK Medical Research Group has revealed that most doctors here in the future will be non-white females from ethnic minorities. The research has also found that only a quarter of today's medical students are white men and many females from ethnic backgrounds are entering medical schools throughout Britain. According to the General Medical Council, more than two in three that registered for work last year were born outside the United Kingdom - like India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and South Africa. The study further states: "From 1964 to 1971 more than 95 per cent of hospital consultants were white, and most of them male. By 2001, the proportion was down to about 60 per cent. On university medicine courses in 1974, the number of students who were from ethnic groups was only about two per cent, but by 2005, this figure is expected to rise to around 30 per cent. "People of Asian origin - including Indian, Sri Lankan and Pakistani - make up nearly 21 per cent of medical students, despite being only eight per cent of those aged 20-24, which is the age most students study medicine at university." Professor Michael Goldacre, who led the research, said that there has been tremendous interest in widening participation in medicine to all social classes and minority groups. He further stated that people have missed one part of this big picture - which is the huge decline in white men entering medical schools. |
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