Preregistration house officers' views on whether their experience at medical school prepared them well for their jobs: national questionnaire survey

Abstract

( see also p 1019) The aims of training at medical school are to lay the educational foundations for a lifelong career in medicine and to equip junior doctors well for the first stage in their working lives. To gauge the extent to which the second objective is being achieved we sought views of doctors who graduated from medical schools in the United Kingdom in 1999 and 2000. We regularly undertake surveys of newly qualified doctors, to establish their career choices and progression. 1 2 In our most recent surveys we included the statement: “My experience at medical school prepared me well for the jobs I have undertaken so far.” We invited respondents to state their level of agreement on a five point scale from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.” We mailed questionnaires containing the statement to 5330 doctors: all 4221 qualifiers in the United Kingdom of 1999 and 1109 qualifiers (a random 25%) of 2000. …