Resident doctors criticise “incompetence” of recruitment process after radiology job offers are retracted

An error in ranking applicants for radiology specialty training programmes has led to job offers for some doctors being retracted.

Resident doctors who applied for radiology were sent the outcomes of their applications on 24 March. They later received an update telling them that the offers had been made in error, as only one component of the multistage selection process had been taken into account. Offers based on the correct rankings were reissued two days later.

Ahmed Mohamed had applied for radiology for the second time, having failed to secure a job offer last year. He told The BMJ that he was “so, so happy and excited” when he got an email telling him that he had been successful this time. But, after calling his family to celebrate, he had to tell them hours later that …