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Four in ten medical students consider leaving or pausing studies due to financial pressures
Junior doctors on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, June 27, 2024
INSUFFICIENT government funding for medical students is plunging budding doctors into financial hardship, the BMA warned today.
The union published a survey of over 3,500 medical students and found that 43 per cent had considered leaving or pausing their course due to financial pressures.
More than two-fifths had used an overdraft to cover living costs, while one in 10 turned to credit cards or loans to make ends meet, the survey found.
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