Of petitions and signatures
www.medschoolsonline.co.uk
I realize the previous post was not exactly informative....so here's the bit I copied from the above website:
"Petition against new immigration/work permit rules for international medical students.
This online petition simply calls for a delay in the implementation of
the new immigration and visa rules for international medical students
currently studying at a UK medical school, until they have completed
their entire postgraduate training (to CCT level or equivalent). Rather
than introduce these new immigration and visa changes in one step, we,
the undersigned, would ask the Home Office to phase in the new
regulations over time.
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The Home Office has recently announced changes to the immigration rules, which will make it almost impossible for international (non-UK/EU) doctors to get post-foundation programme jobs in the UK. Under the new rules, all international doctors will need to be awarded a work permit in order to work in the UK, and will only be offered a job if there is no suitable EU or UK applicant for the job that they are applying to.
Whilst this should ensure that there are enough jobs nationwide for medical graduates of EU/UK origin, our international medical students have had the rug pulled out from under them.
When our current international medical students decided to pursue their medical education in the UK, the immigration rules that existed at the time entitled them to the same access to post-graduate jobs and training as UK graduates. However, the government has decided to change the rules, with no exemption for those international students who are already studying medicine in the UK. We believe this is a serious injustice for those international students who made their decision to pursue their medical education in the UK on the basis that they would be permitted to complete their post-graduate medical training here.
Many will now be forced to return to their home countries after just one year as an SHO, in order to complete their postgraduate training. This petition asks that the new rulings be phased in, and that international students (who will graduate or have already graduated from a UK medical school) are allowed to complete their post-graduate training in the UK. We believe this is the only fair and honourable way for the government to proceed, as our current international students had no idea, when they decided to study here, that the goal posts would be moved so dramatically midway through their undergraduate/ postgraduate education.
To find out more about this issue, please click here. If you agree with us, please sign our petition below. Your name, status and comments will be publicly displayed on this website, but your email address will be kept for our records so that, if necessary, we can prove that the signatories to this petition are genuine.
This petition is endorsed by the BMA Medical Students Committee.
"I believe that the government is wrong to apply the new Home Office immigration rules to existing international medical students, which will prevent them from continuing their post graduate training in the UK after they have completed their foundation years.""
there you have it, a bit of background information about the ruling that's causing such an uproar within the international medical committee.....and it's absurd really...considering one of the many things promised in the brochures sent with my offer letter included a secure future in the UK health industry......so to extend this ruling to existing medical students is tasteless to say the least and akin to a breach of contract.....why, one can almost say we, or rather our 500 grand in fees, were lured to this country under false pretenses......
and to think just the other day my coursemate was trying to persuade me to stay after completing my degree while I was eagerly laying out the advantages of going home.......none of which I meant ,of course...face it, I'm a girl, I like to be cajoled and asked to stay :P......
but the way things are going...there may not even be an option...which brings me back to the petition.....and not just existing medics in the UK...what about those who opted for the twinning programme in IMU? or those who have been given conditional offers through UCAS?.......so do sign the petition, it will only take a second. and your signature might just be the one that tips the scale in our favour.
in retrospect...I should've just married the damn dishwasher when I had the chance...fuggedy:(
I realize the previous post was not exactly informative....so here's the bit I copied from the above website:
"Petition against new immigration/work permit rules for international medical students.
This online petition simply calls for a delay in the implementation of
the new immigration and visa rules for international medical students
currently studying at a UK medical school, until they have completed
their entire postgraduate training (to CCT level or equivalent). Rather
than introduce these new immigration and visa changes in one step, we,
the undersigned, would ask the Home Office to phase in the new
regulations over time.
-->
The Home Office has recently announced changes to the immigration rules, which will make it almost impossible for international (non-UK/EU) doctors to get post-foundation programme jobs in the UK. Under the new rules, all international doctors will need to be awarded a work permit in order to work in the UK, and will only be offered a job if there is no suitable EU or UK applicant for the job that they are applying to.
Whilst this should ensure that there are enough jobs nationwide for medical graduates of EU/UK origin, our international medical students have had the rug pulled out from under them.
When our current international medical students decided to pursue their medical education in the UK, the immigration rules that existed at the time entitled them to the same access to post-graduate jobs and training as UK graduates. However, the government has decided to change the rules, with no exemption for those international students who are already studying medicine in the UK. We believe this is a serious injustice for those international students who made their decision to pursue their medical education in the UK on the basis that they would be permitted to complete their post-graduate medical training here.
Many will now be forced to return to their home countries after just one year as an SHO, in order to complete their postgraduate training. This petition asks that the new rulings be phased in, and that international students (who will graduate or have already graduated from a UK medical school) are allowed to complete their post-graduate training in the UK. We believe this is the only fair and honourable way for the government to proceed, as our current international students had no idea, when they decided to study here, that the goal posts would be moved so dramatically midway through their undergraduate/ postgraduate education.
To find out more about this issue, please click here. If you agree with us, please sign our petition below. Your name, status and comments will be publicly displayed on this website, but your email address will be kept for our records so that, if necessary, we can prove that the signatories to this petition are genuine.
This petition is endorsed by the BMA Medical Students Committee.
"I believe that the government is wrong to apply the new Home Office immigration rules to existing international medical students, which will prevent them from continuing their post graduate training in the UK after they have completed their foundation years.""
there you have it, a bit of background information about the ruling that's causing such an uproar within the international medical committee.....and it's absurd really...considering one of the many things promised in the brochures sent with my offer letter included a secure future in the UK health industry......so to extend this ruling to existing medical students is tasteless to say the least and akin to a breach of contract.....why, one can almost say we, or rather our 500 grand in fees, were lured to this country under false pretenses......
and to think just the other day my coursemate was trying to persuade me to stay after completing my degree while I was eagerly laying out the advantages of going home.......none of which I meant ,of course...face it, I'm a girl, I like to be cajoled and asked to stay :P......
but the way things are going...there may not even be an option...which brings me back to the petition.....and not just existing medics in the UK...what about those who opted for the twinning programme in IMU? or those who have been given conditional offers through UCAS?.......so do sign the petition, it will only take a second. and your signature might just be the one that tips the scale in our favour.
in retrospect...I should've just married the damn dishwasher when I had the chance...fuggedy:(
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