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Specialty choice in UK junior doctors: Is psychiatry the least popular specialty for UK and international medical graduates?

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Background: In the UK and many other countries, many specialties have had longstanding problems with recruitment and have increasingly relied on international medical graduates to fill junior and senior posts. We aimed to determine what specialties were the most popular and desirable among candidates for training posts, and whether this differed by country of undergraduate training.

Methods: We conducted a database analysis of applicati...

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Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1186/1472-6920-9-77

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Psychiatry
Role:
Author
Publisher:
BioMed Central Publisher's website
Journal:
BMC Medical Education Journal website
Volume:
9
Article number:
77
Publication date:
2009-12-24
Acceptance date:
2009-12-24
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EISSN:
1472-6920
Language:
English
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UUID:
uuid:6ab15b83-4160-48b2-a783-0d199ac64906
Local pid:
pubs:139239
Source identifiers:
139239
Deposit date:
2012-12-19

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