Views of UK-trained medical graduates of 1999-2009 about their first postgraduate year of training: national surveys.

ABSTRACT: In the UK, doctors' first year of medical work is also their first year of postgraduate training. It is very important that their experience of work and training is good. Surveys of entire cohorts graduating in particular years. UK. Questionnaires sent 1 year after qualification to all UK medical graduates of 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008 and 2009. The study comprised 17 831 respondents. Variation in views across cohorts was modest. Overall, 30% agreed their training had been of a high standard; 38% agreed educational opportunities had been good; 52% agreed they had to do too much routine non-medical work; and 16% agreed they had to perform clinical tasks for which they felt inadequately trained. Job enjoyment, rated from 1 ('I didn't enjoy it at all') to 10 ('I enjoyed it greatly'), improv

SUBMITTER: Lambert TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3641473 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature