Prime Time Dr Maaz Seerat has been working in Ireland since 2015. Like many doctors, he has spent the past year on the Covid-19 frontline. Despite his years of service as a geriatrician, he has now concluded that his career path has been blocked – and that a coveted consultant post will never be in the offing. It is not for want of trying. As a senior registrar, Dr Seerat technically holds a rank just below that of consultant. But to qualify for the training scheme that would make him eligible for consultant status, he has been told he must complete what's known as basic structural training.