Junior doctors’ preferences for specialty choice

Specialty choice in UK junior doctors: Is psychiatry the least popular specialty for UK and international medical graduates?

BACKGROUND In the UK and many other countries, many specialties have had longstanding problems with recruitment and have increasingly relied on international medical graduates to fill junior and senior posts. We aimed to determine what specialties were the most popular and desirable among candidates for training posts, and whether this differed by country of undergraduate training. METHODS We...

Junior Doctors' Hours

Radiology teaching for junior doctors: their expectations, preferences and suggestions for improvement

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate radiology teaching offered to junior doctors on general medical/surgical rotations, their preferences regarding teaching methods and self-directed learning tools, and their suggestions for improvement. METHODS: An online questionnaire involving all foundation programme doctors at Sunderland Royal Hospital was carried out. Quantitative analysis of preferences and free te...

Eye protection for ENT junior doctors.

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Implications of shift work for junior doctors.