New foundation doctors express anger at being allocated “placeholder job”
Doctors in the first year of foundation training who have yet to be allocated to the jobs they are expected to start on 7 August have said they are “distressed, angry, and fed up.”1 The BMA has said that students who have been given “placeholder jobs” may get just three weeks’ notice of what city and hospital they will start working.2 The association has written to the heads of UK foundation school heads to remind them of the effect this uncertainty can have on the welfare of applicants. “We also reminded the …