BMJ 2003;326:194-195 ( 25 January )

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Career choices of United Kingdom medical graduates of 1999 and 2000: questionnaire surveys

Trevor W Lambert, statistician, Michael J Goldacre, director, Gill Turner, research officer. 

UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF

Correspondence to: T Lambert
trevor.lambert@dphpc.ox.ac.uk

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The career choices of doctors at the end of their preregistration year have been studied for doctors who qualified in the United Kingdom in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1988, 1993 and 1996.^1-4 We report here on the graduates of 1999 and 2000.

	Participants, methods, and results

The survey population comprised all graduates from all medical schools in the United Kingdom in 1999 and 2000. We used graduation lists from each medical school to compile our database. The doctors were sent a questionnaire towards the end of their preregistration year; non-respondents were sent a maximum of four reminders. As in earlier surveys,^1-4 graduates were asked to state up to three choices of long term career in order of preference and to indicate whether they intended to practise medicine in the United Kingdom for the foreseeable future. We grouped career choices specified by the respondents into 14 mainstream specialties based on those defined in the Todd report.⁵ We used ² statistics and adjusted residuals to compare cohorts.¹

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