What do young doctors think of their training and themselves
Of the British qualified doctors whose career preferences and progress we have been surveying, our first group has been in medical practice for 10 years. We thought that this would be a good stage to ask for views about medical training and its effects. Some tentative questions were therefore added to the latest questionnaire, which we sent in 1983 to those who qualified in 1974. We wanted to see if our respondents were interested in a qualitative study of their medical education and, further, if they were willing to engage in a frank self assessment exercise about their own competencies and deficiencies.
A large majority of GPs have voted for the first of two government options on how they will provide extended opening hours in surgeries. ::: ::: The BMA, however, says that GPs will effectively see their pay cut when they start working under the new system from April, as part of changes to the GP contract being imposed after negotiations broke down between the two sides. ::: ::: More than nine out of 10 (92%) of the GPs who took part in a BMA opinion poll voted for the first of two government options, …