Ndubuisi Egwim, an international medical graduate who moved from Nigeria to the UK in 2015, argues that doctors need income beyond clinical work. IMGs face higher GMC referral rates and long stretches of stress after mistakes, making reliance on patient care alone risky.
I really enjoyed dealing with patients but I don't want to do it five days a week and also I don't want it to be like my own sole source of income to the point where I'm worried that if anything goes wrong. So I, I moved to UK 2015 so I've lived in Nigeria, moved here, did a master, did a bit of work in public health. So you're thinking well all you need like in your case is very, very disheartening that something as simple. Well someone might argue that it's not simple but it's very dishearten. A well intentioned error could lead to 18 months of trauma and I wish I could say it's a one off but it's very, very common for things like that to happen. Yeah among IMGs so international medical graduates like me unfortunately there's a higher proportion of people likely to be referred to the gmc. So you think nobody's really safe.
