Factors influencing career intentions on completion of general practice vocational training in England: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

General practice is experiencing a growing crisis with the numbers of doctors who are training and then entering the profession in the UK failing to keep pace with workforce needs. This study investigated the immediate to medium term career intentions of those who are about to become general practitioners (GPs) and the factors that are influencing career plans.

Design

Online questionnaire survey, with quantitative answers analysed using descriptive statistics and free text data analysed using a thematic framework approach.

Setting and participants

Doctors approaching the end of 3-year GP vocational training in the West Midlands, England.

Results

178 (57.2%) doctors completed the survey. Most participants planned to work as salaried GPs or locums rath

SUBMITTER: Dale J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5724231 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature