A LIVERPOOL medical student has hit out at the cost of gaining a degree for young people from low-income families.
A British Medical Association (BMA) report has claimed medical students from low-income backgrounds are graduating with £13,000 more debt than their better-off peers.
Liz Denny, BMA medical student rep at Liverpool, said: “I am really concerned that many talented teenagers from low- income areas in Liverpool will be denied the chance to become a doctor because they and their families don’t have the money to put themselves through medical school.
“This would be a tragic loss for our city, as well as the NHS and patients.”
The findings were revealed in the BMA’s Medical Student Finance Survey 2010/11. It found those from lower-income brackets are graduating with a projected debt of £37, 588, up from £26,324 in the past year.
