Female doctors now outnumber men for the first time in the UK. The General Medical Council announced women with a licence to practice make up 50.04% compared to 49.96% male doctors. It marks a generational shift towards women training to become doctors with 164,440 now registered alongside 164,195 men. Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen, chair of the GMC and a consultant ophthalmologist herself, said: “This is a significant milestone. The demographics of the medical workforce are rapidly changing,