Are there too many female medical graduates?

Yes, too many. But these are politically correct times so I would expect the poll to say there aren't enough. Doctors are one of the most politically correct bunch of left-wing thinkers around.

Political correctness should not be blamed for the rise in female graduates. If it is an example of 'positive discrimination' to redress the balance for under-representation in previous years then it is wrong, however it should be wider social trends, not the profession, which is blamed for this. A consideration to make in this argument may be perhaps that women are prefered by the system of selection because, generally speaking, they are better at communicating - both with patients and other medical professionals. This is better suited to the holistic care model which is evolving in the undergraduate curriculum and the health services.

If the demographics mean a future shortage of doctors as predicted then the balance may need redressing or we are letting the public ie the employer down. This isn't an argument of male versus female, there are good, bad and ugly on both sides, but a pragmatic need to fufill clinical commitment.

I think it would be more useful to poll whether people think having more female doctors is going to be a negative thing for the NHS.

There are too many female doctors in medicine. The situation we are facing now is similar to what the legal profession in the US faced a decade or two ago when they positively discriminated to have more women enter the legal profession, who then left / went part-time at the prime of their careers. Taking out political correctness out of the equation for a moment and thinking about it purely in terms of work-force planning, investing in someone who is known to be likely to work fewer hours and put in fewer years into a job is a bad investment decision and while this should not be used to discriminate, it should be taken into consideration to create a balanced intake that can accommodate the volume of work that needs to be done. One of the main reasons why girls do better than boys at A-levels is that most courses are now modular, which girls are known to do better than boys in, just as when exams were 'one big exam' at the end, boys did better. In any case the a-leves taken at 18 for all intents and purposes have little bearing on one's ability and aptitude as a doctor. So I do not buy the argument about the best candidates getting into medical schools, as the system of selection is flawed. It takes hundreds of thousands of pounds to fully train a doctor and the society rightly expect a return on this investment. We should have the right balance between full-time / part-time working and for goodness sake, should not try to make 'part-time-working' so the norm (it is NOT and should not be made to be) to accommodate female working preferences that the few remaining male doctors also abandon a whole-time commitment to their profession in favour of part-time working. If we do not put the hours in to care for our patients, they will suffer for it, no matter how nice and empathetic and communicative we are about it.

I don't think there are enough, I'm having to wait for a month to see a female gp about a female problem.

my male privilege, let me show it to you

Are you seriously asking this question or is this some kind of April Fool joke? What conceivable difference could it make to have more female (or for that matter male) medical graduates. If the employing organisations are bothered about women daring to have pregnancies and families, it can be addressed by a straightforward process of managing your human resources more effectively and actually bothering to plan. I am an employee of the NHS and I have been a patient following a diagnosis of Leukaemia, my experience of the medical profession has not been affected by the gender of the doctor (although the arrogance displayed by the male staff is notably greater!). My conclusion is that both are equally competent and therefore equally worthy of employment. The only matter remaining is a societal and organisational one about how we make room for people to have families whilst still retaining their skills and experience in the workplace. The mere act of asking the question reeks of the "Old Boys Club" mentality and ducks the real issue. Time for the boys to grow up I fear.