UK nationals who received their medical degrees abroad: selection into, and subsequent performance in postgraduate training: a national data linkage study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare the likelihood of success at selection into specialty training for doctors who were UK nationals but obtained their primary medical qualification (PMQ) from outside the UK ('UK overseas graduates') with other graduate groups based on their nationality and where they gained their PMQ. We also compared subsequent educational performance during postgraduate training between the graduate groups.

Design

Observational study linking UK medical specialty recruitment data with postgraduate educational performance (Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP) ratings).

Setting

Doctors recruited into national programmes of postgraduate specialist training in the UK from 2012 to 2016.

Participants

34 755 UK-based trainee doctors recruited into natio

SUBMITTER: Tiffin PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6082483 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature