On the early career choices of medical graduates

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The second year's results of the BMA's cohort study of medical graduates became available this month. Its author, Jon Ford, outlines the trends in early career choice that are starting to emerge. ![][1] In June 1995 the BMA's health policy and economic research unit began a longitudinal study of a sample of 1995 UK medical graduates. The project will track the sample for at least ten years, recording their career paths (and intentions) as well as their views on undergraduate and postgraduate education, and the professional values which underlie their choice and pursuit of a medical career. Just over 600 graduates were selected for the study. They were drawn from the 1400 who responded to a mass mailing of final year students. The sample was constructed to be representative of the total population of final year students principally by sex and ethnic origin. Replacements for those who failed to graduate were chosen to reflect the characteristics of those they replaced. The detailed methodology of the study was described in the first report of the project published in December 1995.(1) The first report, published in two parts, covered the initial career preferences of the doctors and dealt also with their professional values - an extension of a separate study of the core values of the medical profession. In March 1996 two focus groups of cohort members were held with two intentions. Firstly, the health policy and economic research unit was … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif

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