Nurses could train to become doctors by doing ‘part-time’ medical degrees

Nurses could train to become doctors by doing ‘part-time’ medical degrees

Nurses could train to become doctors by doing “part-time degrees” under radical proposals to increase the number of medics. Health officials on Wednesday said they were looking at ways to encourage nurses, pharmacists, and physios to train to become doctors while they earned. Professor Ian Cumming, head of Health Education England, said “the concept of…