title: Older women entrants to medicine.
abstract: In a study of women who first obtained a registrable qualification from a British Medical School in the years 1949-51 (early cohort) and 1965 (late cohort) it was found that 83% qualified when aged 21-25, 12% when aged 26-30, 3% when aged 31-35 and 2% when over 36. There was a higher level of practice over the 12 years after qualification by the older entrants, and these also obtained career posts earlier than the younger entrants.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004526:Efficiency; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010822:Physicians, Women / Q000523:psychology; D012570:School Admission Criteria; D006113:United Kingdom