Relationship between sociodemographic factors and specialty destination of UK trainee doctors: a national cohort study.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:Many countries are driving forward policies to widen the socioeconomic profile of medical students and to train more medical students for certain specialties. However, little is known about how socioeconomic origin relates to specialty choice. Nor is there a good understanding of the relationship between academic performance and specialty choice. To address these gaps, our aim was to identify the relationship between socioeconomic background, academic performance and accepted offers into specialty training. DESIGN:Longitudinal, cohort study using data from the UK Medical Education Database (https://www.ukmed.ac.uk/). PARTICIPANTS:6065 (60% females) UK doctors who accepted offers to a specialty training (residency) post after completing the 2-year generic foundation programme (UK

SUBMITTER: Kumwenda B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6475150 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature