ArticlePostgraduate medical journal2018
Views of UK doctors in training on the timing of choosing a clinical specialty: quantitative and qualitative analysis of surveys 3 years after graduation.
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- Advanced undergraduate medical students' perceptions of basic medical competences and specific competences for different medical specialties - a qualitative study.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- Factors affecting the UK junior doctor workforce retention crisis: an integrative review.BMJ open · 2022Review
- Final-year medical students' competence profiles according to the modified requirement tracking questionnaire.BMC medical education · 2021Article
- Defining competence profiles of different medical specialties with the requirement-tracking questionnaire - a pilot study to provide a framework for medial students' choice of postgraduate training.BMC medical education · 2021Article
- Comment on: "Millennials in Psychiatry: Exploring Career Choice Factors in Generation Y Psychiatry Interns".Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2020Article
- A Survey of Factors Influencing Specialization in Plastic Surgery Among Chinese Surgeons.The Journal of craniofacial surgeryArticle
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Abstract
backgroundWorkforce studies show a declining proportion of UK junior doctors proceeding directly to specialist training, with many taking career breaks. Doctors may be choosing to delay this important career decision.
aimTo assess doctors' views on the timing of choosing a clinical specialty.
methodsSurveys of two cohorts of UK-trained doctors 3 years after qualification, in 2011 and 2015.
resultsPresented with the statement '
conclusionsMost UK-trained doctors feel rushed into choosing their long-term career specialty. Doctors find this difficult because they lack sufficient medical experience and adequate career advice to make sound choices. Workforce trainers and planners should enable greater flexibility in training pathways and should further improve existing career guidance.
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