Many medical students consider ‘pausing or leaving course’ because of financial pressures

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By Daniel Pye

Many medical students in England are being “pushed into financial hardship” because of insufficient funding, the British Medical Association has warned.

The union has published a survey of more than 3,500 medical students in which more than four in ten (43%) said they have considered leaving or pausing their course because of financial pressures.