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Postgraduate Medical Journal 2008;84:109; doi:10.1136/pgmj.2007.065755
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Factors influencing surgery as a choice of career: results of an electronic survey of early years surgical trainees

M O’Brien 1,2, J Brown 1,2, R Gillies 2, N Shaw 2, D Graham 2

1 Faculty of Health, Edge Hill University, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK
2 Mersey Deanery, Regatta Place, Brunswick Business Park, Liverpool, UK

Correspondence to:
Mary O’Brien, Evidence-based Practice Research Centre, Faculty of Health, Edge Hill University, University Hospital Aintree, Longmoor Lane, Liverpool L9 7LN, UK; obrienm@edgehill.ac.uk

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An evaluation of the surgical training rotation in Mersey Deanery in 2000 highlighted that individual trainers and departments were strong influencing factors affecting trainees’ choice of surgery as a career.1 2 Following the recent changes to postgraduate medical training brought about by Modernising Medical Careers (MMC)3 and the introduction of the European working time directive (EWTD), we sought to re-examine the influences on current trainees to pursue a career in surgery.

An anonymous electronically administered questionnaire, focusing around career intentions and factors affecting choice of surgery as a career, was made available to trainees on the Mersey Deanery early years surgical training (EYST) programme. Space was also included on the questionnaire for open text comments. Statistical analysis was carried out to identify demographics, frequency and dispersion of responses; open text comments were subjected to cross-sectional code and retrieval analysis.4

A total of 41 (79%) trainees completed the survey. Career choices . . . [Full text of this article]






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