Effect of sex on specialty training application outcomes: a longitudinal administrative data study of UK medical graduates.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine sex differences in the specialty training recruitment outcomes of UK medical graduates; and whether sex differences were explained by prior academic attainment and previous fitness to practise (FtP) declarations.

Design

Retrospective longitudinal cohort study.

Setting

Administrative data on entrants to all UK medical schools from the UK Medical Education Database.

Participants

10 559 doctors (6 155; 58% female) who entered a UK medical school in 2007 or 2008 and were eligible to apply for specialty training by 2015.

Primary outcome measure

Odds of application, offer and acceptance to any specialty training programme, and on to each of the nine largest training programmes, adjusting for sex, other demographics, prior academic attainm

SUBMITTER: Woolf K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6429837 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature