title: Career choices of junior doctors: is the physician an endangered species?
abstract: There are increasing concerns regarding the recruitment and retention within general medicine. National surveys were conducted among foundation year 2 doctors (FY2), year 1 and year 2 core medical trainees (CT1 and CT2) and medical registrars (StR/ST3+) exploring their enjoyment of medicine, overall satisfaction, career aspirations, influencing factors and perceptions of the medical registrar. The results highlight that many doctors at the FY2, CT1 and CT2 levels are being deterred from general medicine by the perceived unmanageable workload and poor work-life balance of the medical registrar. Medical registrars themselves are less satisfied in general internal medicine than they are in their main specialties. Therefore, priority needs to be placed on clarifying the roles, and improving the morale, of medical registrars. If current trends persist, these will have a significant impact on patient safety, patient care and workforce planning.
authors.affiliation: Medical Workforce Unit, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK. MWUClinicalFellow@rcplondon.ac.uk
authors.forename: Ella
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chaudhuri
authors.forename: Nicola C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Mason
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Newbery
authors.forename: Andrew F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Goddard
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000592:standards*; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education; D008297:Male; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D000078329:Workforce
keywords: Training; career choices; medical registrar; physician
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