How do workplaces, working practices and colleagues affect UK doctors' career decisions? A qualitative study of junior doctors' career decision making in the UK.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:This study draws on an in-depth investigation of factors that influenced the career decisions of junior doctors. SETTING:Junior doctors in the UK can choose to enter specialty training (ST) programmes within 2 years of becoming doctors. Their specialty choices contribute to shaping the balance of the future medical workforce, with views on general practice (GP) careers of particular interest because of current recruitment difficulties. This paper examines how experiences of medical work and perceptions about specialty training shape junior doctors' career decisions. PARTICIPANTS:Twenty doctors in the second year of a Foundation Training Programme in England were recruited. Purposive sampling was used to achieve a diverse sample from respondents to an online survey. RESULTS:Narra

SUBMITTER: Spooner S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5665284 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature