ABOUT ONE DOZEN young medical doctors who have been unable to get into the internship programme at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) could soon be heading to the law courts.
The doctors, all of whom graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill campus since last June, have been turned down by the QEH on the grounds that there were more qualified Barbadian applicants than available positions, and as a result applicants were chosen according to their marks in the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) final exams.
In the letter dated July 10 last year and signed by consultant Dr Clyde Cave, the hospital’s internship coordinator, the QEH said: “Regrettably, we are unable to offer you a position at this time and we do not anticipate any vacancies in the next six months.
“I strongly urge you to make every effort to source an internship position elsewhere in the Caribbean as soon as possible as competition for positions in the near future will be even more intense.” (TS)
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