A third of junior doctors say rota gaps have worsened their training, GMC finds

A third of junior doctors think that they have lost opportunities for learning because of gaps in rotas, a survey by the UK General Medical Council has found.1

On Tuesday 4 July the GMC published the initial findings from its 2017 national training survey. The survey received 53 335 responses from UK doctors in training (a 98% response rate) and was conducted between 21 March and 10 May 2017.

Responding to the survey, 32% of trainees disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement, “In my current post, educational/training opportunities are rarely lost to gaps in the rota.”

The survey also received responses from 24 577 trainers (a …