Older doctors and progression through specialty training in the UK: a cohort analysis of General Medical Council data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether older age at graduation is associated with any difference in outcomes from the annual specialty training progression assessment.

Design

An open cohort of 38 308 doctors who graduated from a UK medical school with annual assessments of progression in their specialty training programme with data centrally collected by the General Medical Council between 5 August 2009 to 31 July 2012.

Results

Mature junior doctors (≥29 years at graduation) were more likely to have problems with progression on their annual review of competence progression record of in training assessment (ARCP/RITA) than their younger colleagues (OR 1.34, 95% CI 1.22 to 1.49, p<0.001). This association was, if anything, even stronger (OR 1.57, 95% CI 1.41 to 1.74, p<0.001) a

SUBMITTER: Pyne Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4322203 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature