INTRODUCTION UK medical schools have made considerable efforts to ensure that graduates are well prepared for their first year of clinical work. We report the views of two recent cohorts of UK-trained doctors 1 year after graduation about whether their medical school prepared them well, and compare responses with earlier cohorts. METHODS We surveyed doctors who qualified in 2011 and 2012 from...

To the Editor: There has been a worrisome decrease in the number of applicants to nephrology fellowship training programs. First identified in 2008, the number of nephrology applications has been decreasing annually since 2002. Given the annual increase in kidney disease and projected shortage of nephrologists, this downward trend is concerning. Various studies have suggested that a lack of int...

The new graduate medical education system established by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has been in place for 4 years, and various merits and demerits have surfaced. Many Japanese medical graduates are pleased that training in many fi elds and free choice of the place of training are now more possible in comparison with the previous situation. On the other hand, a pronounce...

The objectives of this study were to determine the characteristics of medical students and graduates interested in choosing psychiatry as a career and the obstacles in choosing this field of medicine. Two private and two public medical institutes were surveyed from June 2007 to August 2007. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to third, fourth and final year students and to medical...

Introduction: The primary objective of this study is to assess the knowledge, attitude and awareness adverse drug reaction reporting process among Indian medical undergraduates in a tertiary care teaching hospital. Material Methods: This cross sectional questionnaire based on 250 graduates. Phase III – Part 1 2 Medical Undergraduates at Trichy SRM College Hospital & Research Centre for next 3 m...

OBJECTIVE To verify awareness and attitudes toward epilepsy in Southern Brazil. METHOD A questionnaire about familiarity with the disease, awareness and attitudes toward epileptics was applied to 832 inhabitants of Caxias do Sul. The answers were analyzed in three different groups: G1, non-university students; G2, university students up to the second year; and G3, university students with mor...

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Student Forum T he current debate about the brain drain of health professionals from low-income countries such as Pakistan to the rich world often demonizes medical graduates who choose to leave their countries. Such graduates are sometimes considered to be insensitive to the plight of their country's struggling health sector. But what is forgotten in this debate is that some doctors who emigra...

Recent publications have expressed the view that there is a shortage of cardiologists and it is growing worse. Both an increasing demand and a diminishing supply of cardiologists have been projected. An increase in the number of international medical graduates (IMGs) who enter cardiology practice has been proposed as a remedy for a projected shortage. The IMGs have to overcome challenges includ...

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 ...