Determining the distance patterns in the movements of future doctors in UK between 2002 and 2015: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine and identify distance patterns in the movements of medical students and junior doctors between their training locations.

Design

A retrospective cohort study of UK medical students from 2002 to 2015 (UKMED data).

Setting

All UK medical schools, foundations and specialty training organisation.

Participants

All UK medical students from 2002 to 2015, for a total of 97 932 participants.

Outcome measures

Individual movements and number of movements by county of students from family home to medical school training, from medical school to foundation training and from foundation to specialty training.

Methods

Leslie matrix, principal components analysis, Gini coefficient, χ² test, generalised linear models and variable sel

SUBMITTER: Hitchings L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10973690 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature