Doctor to Teacher????

That £250,000 figure is really, really old. My teaching hospitals get £200,000 per student per year to take us on for clinical studies, so that's already £600,000. Our union spends £50k per student for each of the 6 years too. Add to that a couple of years of preclinical and an intercalated BSc and soon you're talking about real money.

Plus dental students. Plus post-graduate students. The rough count is 2,500 in total.

My GOD that would make it £125,000,000 per year. I think I need to swap unions!

What does that go on? I'm intrigued.

My GOD that would make it £125,000,000 per year.

Can we not move abroad? I've always liked the prospect of working in america

You can if you want to, though it's not massively easy. But I don't want to leave Britain at the moment.

What is there in Britain? Apart from friends, family (and uni obviously).

From what I've heard the important things we care about, tax, value for money, food, weather, and job availability are greater in the states.

I'm not enticing an argument, I'm just interested. Why wouldn't you want to leave Britain when you grad?

I can't speak for Helenia, but for me the country's wonderful countryside and its heritage. Specifically Northumberland's. It would be hard to leave behind Also, believe it or not, there are still some areas of the country that offer quite high standards of living.

Also I don't know where you get job availability from. The career areas that I'm looking at there's quite a skills shortage in this country. In fact there is generally, especially engineering (certainly was). Not that the government want to do anything about it though...

That's still doesn't mean I wouldn't consider emigrating (although probably not to the US).

WTF!!! maybe you care more about tax and the weather than your family/friends/partner but i'd say that was a bit mixed up. i hope your money brings you happiness seeing as you'll have cut everything else out of your life.

I agree that some places in the UK are really nice, Cambridge, Oxford, the Pennines, Cumbria; but considering I'm moving to London, home to the industrial revolution and a myriad of factories, California would be a nice break.

As for job shortages, the whole thread was about job problems for graduating med students; the prospects in america, australia and new zealand are fantastic for medicine.

Well sure, maybe from a medical point of view. I'm not one for large cities (hence me love for Northumberland and Durham) and I wouldn't want to live in London. However, there are far worse cities and towns to live in than London, believe me.

Also London isn't the home of the industrial revolution, or isn't the birthplace anyway. I can also give you a list of areas with a higher concentration of factories.