BMJ 2003;326:1011-1012 ( 10 May )

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Preregistration house officers' views on whether their experience at medical school prepared them well for their jobs: national questionnaire survey

Michael J Goldacre, professor, Trevor Lambert, statistician, Julie Evans, social scientist, Gill Turner, research officer. 

Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford OX3 7LF

Correspondence to: M J Goldacre michael.goldacre@dphpc.ox.ac.uk

(see also p 1019)

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The aims of training at medical school are to lay the educational foundations for a lifelong career in medicine and to equip junior doctors well for the first stage in their working lives. To gauge the extent to which the second objective is being achieved we sought views of doctors who graduated from medical schools in the United Kingdom in 1999 and 2000.


    Methods and results

We regularly undertake surveys of newly qualified doctors, to establish their career choices and progression. 1 2 In our most recent surveys we included the statement: "My experience at medical school prepared me well for the jobs I have undertaken so far." We invited respondents to state their level of agreement on a five point scale from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree."

We mailed questionnaires containing the statement to 5330 doctors: all 4221 qualifiers in the United Kingdom of 1999 and 1109 qualifiers (a random 25%) of 2000. Seventy three doctors were untraceable, and . . . [Full text of this article]
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