ArticleJRSM open2018
Career choices for nephrology and factors influencing them: surveys of UK medical graduates.
Article in JRSM open, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Perception of nephrology in Europe: a strategy to improve recruitment of motivated fellows.Clinical kidney journal · 2024Review
- Perceptions towards Nephrology Specialty: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.The Ulster medical journal · 2024Review
- Engaging medical students and residents in nephrology education: an updated scoping review.Journal of nephrology · 2022Article
- "What do you think about nephrology?" A national survey of internal medicine residents.BMC nephrology · 2021Article
- Why do graduates choose to work in a less attractive specialty? A cross-sectional study on the role of personal values and expectations.Human resources for health · 2020Article
- Residents' Perception of the Nephrology Specialty.Kidney international reports · 2020Article
- Factors affecting senior medical students' career choice.International journal of medical education · 2018Article
- Career Choices and Career Progression of Junior Doctors in Dermatology: Surveys of UK Medical Graduates.Dermatology research and practice · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesTo study early and eventual career choices for nephrology among UK medical graduates and investigate factors which influenced career preferences.
designSelf-completed survey questionnaires mailed to medical graduates 1, 3, 5 and 10 years after graduation.
settingUnited Kingdom.
participantsUK medical graduates in 15 year-of-qualification cohorts between 1974 and 2015.
main outcome measuresEarly career specialty choices, career specialty destinations at 10 years and ratings of factors affecting career choices.
resultsAround 0.4%-1.1% of these junior doctors expressed a career preference for nephrology, varying by year of qualification and years after qualification. Among all graduates of 1993-2002 combined, 0.4% expressed a career preference for nephrology 1 year after qualification rising to 1.0% in year 5. Among graduates of 2005-2008, the corresponding figures were 1.0% in year 1 falling to 0.7% in year 5. Only 18% of doctors who chose nephrology in year 1 eventually became nephrologists. Of doctors who were practising as nephrologists for 10 years and more after qualification, 74% of the women and 56% of the men had decided to pursue a career in nephrology by year 5 after qualification. 'Enthusiasm/commitment' had a great deal of influence on those who chose nephrology, for all cohorts and all years studied.
conclusionsThe most recent data suggest that the proportion of young doctors who sustain an interest in nephrology through the early postgraduate training years may be lower than among their predecessors. Efforts are needed to reverse the declining trend and increase interest in nephrology.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.