UK medical students flock to Bulgaria amid scarcity of college places back home

Despite all three levels, Adana Patel could not paint at all three levels at all levels.

Instead, Patel exchanged its northern English in the city of Bulgaria, Bulgaria, Bulgaria, following the growing number of British-Asian students, now they are looking for medical qualification in Europe.

“I had a backup offer to explore optometry, but I just really wanted to do medichood. I had the classes and already knew several other people who were studying here, so I thought. “Why not? I will take the jump and go to Bulgaria myself, “he said.

Currently, in the third year of his medical degree, Patel is part of the growing pipeline of the EU trained talent, which enters the fastest growing supplier of British graduates in Bulgaria in 2023. According to the data From the General Medical Council.

Other EU popular directions include Poland and Romania, but the British government currently have more than 2,500 British students studying medical and dental stairs in Bulgaria, including Plovdiv, Varna and Sofia.

The British Health Service is in recruitment, and since 2017-18, more than one-third of the students from 7,660 to 10,415, in the current academic year, is still supplied.

NHS Labor planIn 2023, it was published in 2023, 20,000 of British medical schools, 2031-32, but the interim health care was greatly relieved by the recruitment of abroad, including the “Red list” in the International Red List. For a lack of a doctor.

However, recent warning secretary Wees warns that NHS has become “too much confidence in the leverage of immigration,” adding that many British students have not received many British medical schools.

Until the capacity of the new British medical school, there is still flow, graduates, such as Bulgaria, which provided 435 British citizens with medical degrees of medical degrees, and all zero value.

Mark Dianan, Nuffield Trust Think-Tank’s policy analyst said that the number of British students in Bulgaria wants to leave home and train. ”

The British Medical Association has called on the doctors’ Union more medical schools, as well as a balanced expansion of training opportunities for new qualified doctors.

“Persons with the ability to become a doctor in the UK should not hinder the lack of places and the pace of high competition,” said Rob Haks, Chairman of the ICC Medical Students.

In Plovdiv, students pay 9,000 euro rental fees per year and Ambulance department of AddenBouse Hospital in Cambridge.

Adetayo, born in London and Nigerian origin, was one of the early pioneers of study in Bulgaria. But he found it so hard when he arrived in Plovdiv in 2015 that he later started a agency. Medconnect Europe:to help smooth the part of others.

“I went to Agent and I was 18 years old. At that time, there were only 150 British students at the whole university, and there was no one there to help us when we arrived. They mainly left us to it, “he recalled.

The experience today is very improved, according to the 19-year-old Merlin, a student of the first year’s dentistry, which used another popular agency. InterfacesHelp her pass through September last year, including visa bureaucracy.

“We have all met in advance, which was very useful, and they made us go out a week ago and organize actions for all of us, which should be familiar with six British friends.

But there are still pressure. Many students supported family members who worked and sacrificed their fees and livelihoods, and the 21-year-old Hazut Ali Khan, whose mother and sister were taken to the online retail center.

“I come from a low-income family. Sometimes it’s a struggle to collect money. I have debts with family and friends and work in the summer, teaches online. So I feel there is financial pressure and load, but at the end of the tunnel there is also light, “he said.

The challenge of moving to the Balkans to study in the right city of Europe is partially mitigated by a number of British students received from Bulgaria.

Plovdiv Medical University has more than 1,200 British students from Turkey’s 150 km south-east and Turkey, about 80 percent of whom, the Pope came to the United Kingdom in the 1960s Gujarat was South Asian origin.

Around the university, the pocket of students from Britain’s regional emphasis, from East London, Sevin and Birmingham will discuss their upcoming anatomy tests, as well as the last units of the British Premier League.

Since the beginning of the language of Bulgaria and cultural seasons, 22-year-old Sumayya Mahmud, which is currently in the third year of dentistry, said that she was the sacrifice of being away from home.

Mahmood, who grew up in Birmingham and is located in his levels of three BS.

“I feel blessed here. No Britain’s school offers people in my position dentistry and Bulgaria, offered that opportunity. So, even if there are things we don’t like, Bulgaria gave us the opportunity to Britain, “he said.

Those who benefit from places are taught in English and receive a degree that is fully recognized in the UK. Clinical Year for students University is proud of the condition of the Center for Art simulation, medical mannequin, which can bleed, cry with pain and even give birth.

Plovdiv, about 400,000 people, combining ancient Roman ruins and the industrial area of ​​the Soviet era, have a mosque in the Ottoman age, where Muslim students can pray for Muslim students.

Still students still need to get used to the non-absurd approach of Bulgarian lecturers. When a group of British students arrive late for their anatomy class, they will quickly ask to leave. “No, get out, please, you have to be on time,” said the teacher before returning to more flexible members of his class.

Vice-Rector for Educational Activities in Plovdiv that the students of teachers were originally through “more guidance” course materials than their Bulgarian partners, but then often the exams were often better.

“Come to the end of the semester I am often surprised by the results. Foreign students tend to be better trained in theoretical tests than Bulgarians. The foreigners have difficulties to overcome, so they may be more motivated to learn hard, “he added.

According to the university data, the course is taking over the course of the course, a graduation ceremony takes place in Plovdiv’s impressive Roman amphitheater.

Twenty-five-year-old Muhammad Tamad, 25, who graduated last summer, has started a video on her phone when she turned around her parents, she was graduated.

“At first, I was afraid of studying the dentistry abroad. I took it as a choice of lifestyle, but then I came to love it, “he reminded. “And now when he returns to Plovdiv, it feels like him. Looking back [at that video]It’s just pure happiness. “

Data Imagination by Amy Borrett