Doctors' Careers: Aims and Experiences of Medical Graduates / Edition 1

by James Parkhouse

Overview

First published in 1991.The training, employment, and career movement of doctors is of fundamental concern to all those working in and administrating the National Health Service and private medicine within Britain and around the world. Doctors' Careers makes available to a wide readership, in one volume, the results of a comprehensive survey of medical choices and career progress of doctors qualifying from British medical schools during a decade, from 1974 to 1983. No other survey of this kind has been carried out over a prolonged period of time. This is a unique record of the aspirations, feelings and experiences of a very large group of doctors, during a time of considerable changes in emigration, training for general practice, and the position of women doctors. The book deals with these issues, and also the reasons for choosing and changing careers within medicine, postgraduate qualifications, internal migration of doctors within the UK, aspects of some important individual specialisms - medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and anaesthetics - and the personal opinions of doctors about their training and the career problems of British medicine. The data has important implications for medical staff planning, and this is taken up in an analysis of the employment status of doctors five years after leaving medical school.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415046497
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/04/1991
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The background Chapter 2. The study Chapter 3. Career choice 4. Career progress: intercalated degrees 5. Career progress: postgraduate examinations Chapter 6. Career progress: internal migration: who goes where? Chapter 7. Career progress: international movement Chapter 8. Career progress: employment status of doctors 9. Women doctors 10. Individual specialities - i. medicine Chapter 11. Individual specialities - ii. surgery Chapter 12. Individual specialities - iii. psychiatry Chapter 13. Individual specialities - iv. anaesthetics Chapter 14. Individual specialities - v. general practice Chapter 15. Comments and opinions

Editorial Reviews

Presents the results of a unique survey of medical choices and career progress of doctors qualifying from British medical schools from 1974 to 1983. The aspirations, feelings, and experiences of a large group of doctors are recorded, with details of reasons for choosing and changing careers within medicine, internal migration within the UK, aspects of individual specialities, and the opinions of doctors about their training and the career problems of British medicine. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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