Survey of Queen's University medical graduates.

Little work, however, has been done in this field in Northern Ireland. One of the main functions of the Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical Education is to provide a careers information and advisory service for recent graduates. This service is limited by a lack of basic information about the factors which influence young doctors in choosing a specialty and deciding in which part of the world they will practice. There is no reliable information available about the career preferences of Queen's medical students; how these preferences may be influenced by academic achievements and home background or how preferences may change as students are exposed to various specialties and aspects of medical practice during their undergraduate and early postgraduate years. Information about the ultimate location of Queen's medical graduates has been derived largely from heresay.