Medical apprenticeships ensure undergraduates are legitimate participants in communities of practice

Lynn’s summary of medical apprenticeships1 made us reflect on our own experiences through medical school. As recently graduated medical students, now working as NHS foundation doctors, we would have loved the opportunity to be apprentices. We advocate for the continued expansion of this innovative route.

Notwithstanding the advantageous financial circumstances of avoiding hundreds of thousands of pounds of debt, the medical apprenticeship programme offers apprentices the opportunity to become legitimate …