Early career choices for emergency medicine and later career destinations: national surveys of UK medical graduates.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To report doctors' early career preferences for emergency medicine, their eventual career destinations and factors influencing their career pathways.

Design

Self-administered questionnaire surveys.

Setting

United Kingdom.

Participants

All graduates from all UK medical schools in selected graduation years between 1993 and 2015.

Main outcome measures

Choices for preferred eventual specialty; eventual career destinations; certainty about choice of specialty; correspondence between early specialty choice for emergency medicine and eventually working in emergency medicine.

Results

Emergency medicine was chosen by 5.6% of graduates of 2015 when surveyed in 2016, and 7.1% of graduates of 2012 surveyed in 2015. These figures represent a modest i

SUBMITTER: Lambert TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7586038 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature