Medical schools should widen pool of talent, says Alan Milburn
Medical schools should widen the pool of talent from which doctors are recruited by making it easier for youngsters from poorer backgrounds to study medicine, a report for the Government will say Labour's former health secretary Alan Milburn, the Government's independent reviewer on social mobility, accused medicine and other professions of failing to make ``any great galvanising effort'' to open their doors to disadvantaged students.
The paucity of Emirati medical talent in the private sector should be addressed as a priority, said Dr Khalid Amiri, Head of Biology Department, UAE University, at the first Life Sciences Foresight conference on June 11, 2012.