Risk factors at medical school for subsequent professional misconduct: multicentre retrospective case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether there are risk factors in a doctor's time at medical school that are associated with subsequent professional misconduct.

Design

Matched case-control study. Setting Records from medical schools and the General Medical Council (GMC).

Participants

59 doctors who had graduated from any one of eight medical schools in the United Kingdom in 1958-97 and had a proved finding of serious professional misconduct in GMC proceedings in 1999-2004 (cases); 236 controls (four for each case) were selected by systematic sampling from matching graduation cohorts. Case-control status was revealed by the GMC after completion of data entry.

Main outcome measure

Odds ratios for being a "case," with multivariable conditional logistic regression of potent

SUBMITTER: Yates J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3191727 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature