Today, the
British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) has filed a legal
case against UK’s Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the General
Medical Council (GMC) for the MRCGP examinations biased against minority ethnic
candidates. This legal case puts medical practitioners minorities in the UK on
the spotlight.
Esmail and
Roberts’ report showed that Black and
minority ethnic graduates trained in the UK were likely to fail than their
white UK counterparts in their first attempt at a clinical skills assessment
exam. Black and minority ethnic candidates who trained abroad also had a
greater likeliness to fail in the exam. The likeliest to fail are minority candidates
who did not train or study in the United Kingdom.
According to
the lawyer of BAPIO, Attorney William O’Neill, should BAPIO win the case, it
will mean good quality medical graduates from universities regardless of
ethnicity, which would give the NHS the boost it needs to provide quality
medical service.
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