Living with MTAS

This week's BMJ Careers provides a collection of articles focusing on the issue of the current job situation as a result of MMC and MTAS.


The Editor's choice : "living with MTAS" suggests junior doctors should be flexible and consider options and alternative careers.

This week and the next two, the BMJ Careers will feature articles about careers outside the NHS with the hope that junior doctors will be inspired and informed to consider alternative careers. There are some interesting articles :

• Working for the pharmaceutical industry


• Voluntary work is a good idea


• Pastures green - working abroad


• Having the best of both worlds - locuming


• Banking on it - a medical student's experience of working in the City finance sector
• Career decision making in an age of uncertainty