Junior doctors' aspirations for careers in ophthalmology: 40 years of surveys of UK medical graduates.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Using data from 40 years of national surveys of UK medical graduates, we report on ophthalmology as a career choice.

Design setting and participants

Self-administered questionnaire surveys of all graduates from all UK medical schools in selected years of qualification between 1974 and 2015.

Main outcome measures

Career specialty preferences of doctors one, three, and five years after graduation; career specialty destinations 10 years after graduation.

Results

One year after graduation, ophthalmology was the first career preference of 1.6% of the qualifiers of 1974-83, 2.2% of 1993-2002, and 1.8% of 2005-15. The corresponding percentages three years after graduation were 1.5, 1.8, and 1.2%. Men were more likely than women to choose ophthalmology: among

SUBMITTER: Lambert TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7236578 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature