Organisational perspectives on addressing differential attainment in postgraduate medical education: a qualitative study in the UK.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore how representatives from organisations with responsibility for doctors in training perceive risks to the educational progression of UK medical graduates from black and minority ethnic groups (BME UKGs), and graduates of non-UK medical schools (international medical graduates (IMGs)). To identify the barriers to and facilitators of change.

Design

Qualitative semistructured individual and group interview study.

Setting

Postgraduate medical education in the UK.

Participants

Individuals with roles in examinations and/or curriculum design from UK medical Royal Colleges. Employees of NHS Employers.

Results

Representatives from 11 medical Royal Colleges (n=29) and NHS Employers (n=2) took part (55% medically qualified, 61% male, 71% white

SUBMITTER: Woolf K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5855204 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature