Despite the achievement of degrees A at all three levels and securing interviews in two universities, AdNaan Patel was unable to win a place in the British College of Medicine to follow his ambition to become a doctor.

Instead, Patel has exchanged his hometown in Blackburn, northern Blackburn, for a period of six years of study in the southern Bulvedev city, in the footsteps of an increasing number of British Asian students who are now looking for medical qualifications in Europe.

“I had a backup of the study of optics, but I really wanted to do the medicine. I got the scores and already knew two other people studying here, so I thought,” Why not? “I will take the jump and go to Bulgaria myself,” he said.

Now 22 and in the third year of his medical certificate, Patel is part of an increasing pipeline of the European Union’s trained talent that is entering NHS, with Bulgaria the fastest equipment for UK graduates trained abroad to health service in 2023, According to the data From the General Medical Council.

Other famous destinations of the European Union include Poland and Romania, but the UK government is estimated that there are now more than 2,500 British students studying for medical and accurate degrees in Bulgaria in cities, including Bluefdev, Farna and Sofia.

The health service in the United Kingdom is working on an employment campaign, as the number of places to study medicine in UK universities expands by more than a third since 2017-18, as it has risen from 7660 to 10,415 in the current school year, but the demand still exceeds the offer.

NHS Manpower PlanIt was published in 2023, set a goal from 15,000 places at the UK College of Medicine by 2031-1032, but at the present time, the health service has been largely relied on employment from abroad, including countries like Pakistan and Ghana in the “Red List International for the lack of a doctor.

However, WES Streeting recently warned that NHS had become “very dependent on the withdrawal of immigration arm”, adding that many “straight” students did not get places in the UK medical colleges.

Until the capacity of the New UK Medical College comes in the current, graduates from countries such as Bulgaria – which provided 435 British citizens in 2023 – can help enhance the flow of doctors and dentists, all at a zero cost to the British state.

Mark Dayan, a policy analyst at Novld Trust Terink, said that the numbers of British students are ready to leave the home and training in Bulgaria “indicating a dominated request in the UK for places.”

The British Medical Association, the Doctors Union, called for more medical school places, as well as the proportional expansion of training opportunities for newly qualified doctors.

“Those who have the ability and desire to study should not be prevented to become a UK doctor from doing this due to lack of places and high competition rates,” said Rob Taker, Chairman of the BMA Medical Committee.

Plovdiv students pay the tuition fees amounting to 9000 euros annually, with living expenses usually the annual costs of about 17,000 euros and the emergency department at Addenbroke Hospital in Cambridge.

Adetayo, born in London and Nigerian coordinator, was one of the first study pioneers in Bulgaria. But he found the transition very difficult when he arrived in Bluefdev in 2015, to the point that he later started an agency, Medconnect EuropeTo help smooth the passage of others.

“I passed an agent and I was 18 years old. There were only 150 British students at the entire university at the time, and there was no one to help us when we arrived.

The experiment has been greatly improved today, according to Merlin John, 19 -year -old, a dentist student in the first year used another famous agency, InterheecesTo help her move when she arrived last September, including visa bureaucracy.

“We all met all over the Internet, which was very useful, and made us go out a week before the semester and arrange activities for all of us to get to know each other.” Before the separation.

But there is still pressure. Hazrat Ali Khan, whose sister and sister, said that many students are supported by family members who work and sacrifice the fees and living costs.

I came from a low -income family. Sometimes it is a struggle to raise money. I have debts with family and friends and work in the summer, and I study online. So I feel there is financial pressure and burden, but there is also a light at the end of the tunnel. “

The challenge of moving to the Balkan to study in a city on the edge of the European Union is partially reduced due to the huge number of British students who are now obtaining medical certificates from Bulgaria.

Bluefdev Medical University, at a distance of 150 km southeast South Asia.

Throughout the campus, the pockets of students who have British regional dialects from East London, Blackburn and Bringham can discuss the upcoming autopsy tests in addition to the latest scores of the Premier League.

Adaptation to Bulgaria and cultural behaviors was not easy at the beginning, and Sumaya Mahmoud, who is 22 years old, remembered, and now in her third year of dentistry, but she said that sacrificing to stay away from home was a valuable educational experience.

Mahmoud, who grew up in Birmingham and of Pakistani origin, achieved three BS in its levels A and a serious review was made to pass the admission exams in biology and chemistry, and the choice of dentistry in Bulgaria instead of accepting a reserve offer to study a pharmacy in the pharmacy study at Wolverhampton University.

“I feel blessed to be here. No schools in the United Kingdom have provided people in my position as a place to study dentistry, and Bulgaria has given me this opportunity. So even if there were things we do not like, Bulgaria gave us an opportunity that the UK was not.”

Those who win places are taught in English and obtain a fully recognized certificate in the United Kingdom. For clinical year students, the university is proud of a simulation simulation center, with medical models that can bleed, scream from pain to birth.

Bluefdev, a city that includes approximately 400,000 people who combine ancient Roman ruins and the industrial extension in the Soviet era, has a mosque from the Ottoman era where Muslim students can pray and a growing number of halal butchers to meet their nutritional needs.

However, students must get used to the meaningless approach to Bulgarian professors: When a group of British students arrive late due to their dissection semester, they are asked to quickly leave. “No, go out, please be on time,” said the teacher before returning to teach novice members in his chapter.

The UK students initially need “more directives” through the course of the training course than their Bulgarian counterparts, but they were often better in exams, said Veselina Granova-Marinova, Vice President of Educational Activities at Plovdd MU.

“Come to the end of the semester, I was often surprised by the results. Foreign students tend to be better prepared in the theoretical tests than the Bulgarians. She added that foreigners are facing difficulties in overcoming them, so they may be more excited to study hard.”

For those who complete the course – and more than 90 percent, according to university data – the graduation ceremony takes place in the wonderful Roman runway in Bluefdev.

Mohamed Hamza, 25, from Blackburn, graduated from Bluefdev last summer and began working as a trained dentist last month. He has a video on his phone at the moment he walked through the old theater, his parents watched, to receive his passing graduation.

“At first I was worried about studying dentistry abroad. I took it as a lifestyle option, but I came to love it.” “Return to Plovdiv now, it looks like it is at home. Looking back [at that video]It is just a pure happiness. “

Data is visualized by Amy Burit