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Trends in attractiveness of general practice as a career: surveys of views of UK-trained doctors

Trevor W Lambert, Fay Smith and Michael J Goldacre
British Journal of General Practice 2017; 67 (657): e238-e247. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp17X689893
Trevor W Lambert
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford.
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Fay Smith
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford.
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Michael J Goldacre
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford.
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vol. 67 no. 657 e238-e247
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp17X689893
PubMed 
28289015

Published By 
Royal College of General Practitioners
Print ISSN 
0960-1643
Online ISSN 
1478-5242
History 
  • Received November 1, 2016
  • Revision requested November 23, 2016
  • Accepted December 13, 2016
  • Published online March 30, 2017.

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  1. Trevor W Lambert, MSc, Project director
  1. UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford.
  1. Fay Smith, PhD, Research officer
  1. UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford.
  1. Michael J Goldacre, FFPH, Emeritus professor of public health
  1. UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford.
  1. Address for correspondence
    Fay Smith, UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK. E-mail: fay.smith{at}dph.ox.ac.uk
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Trevor W Lambert, Fay Smith, Michael J Goldacre
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    • Appendix 1. Levels of agreement with the statement ‘General practice is more attractive than hospital practice for doctors at present’ presented 3 years after graduation (numbers and percentages of responding doctors)a
    • Appendix 2. Trends between 1999 and 2015 in factors affecting career choices, for doctors who chose general practice and hospital practice: percentages of responders in each survey cohort who stated that each factor had a great deal of influence on their career choicea
    • Appendix 3. Levels of agreement with the statement ‘My exposure to general practice has been insufficient for me to assess it as a career option’ presented 3 years after graduation (numbers and percentages of responding doctors)a
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Keywords

  • career choice
  • general practice
  • health workforce
  • hospital practice

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