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Follow‐up study of male Liverpool graduates
Author(s) -
DODD NICHOLAS
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1978.tb00646.x
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , emigration , quarter (canadian coin) , medical school , minor (academic) , demography , medicine , family medicine , medical education , sociology , history , political science , law , mathematics , geometry , archaeology
Summary An attempt was made to trace all the male Medical Graduates from Liverpool University in the years 1950–1954 inclusive, in order to find out where they were working and what work they were doing 20 years later. Of the original group of 288 Graduates, 272 (94.4%) were both traceable and practising medicine. Of these 272, 15.1% were found to be working abroad and 84.9% working in the U.K. (51.5% in the North West and 33.5% elsewhere in the British Isles). Of those abroad (forty‐one in number), about one third were in Canada, a further one third in Australia or New Zealand and about one quarter in the U.S.A.—these three areas accounting for 92.6% of all those abroad. The mean time of emigration was 9.6 years after graduation, with over two thirds emigrating between 5 and 14 years after graduation. Of those in the U.K. (231 in number), the majority were in General Practice (50.6%) and a further 32.1% had specialized in Hospital or Academic Medicine. These figures should be treated as orders of magnitude, since there are a number of possible sources of minor error.