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Career choices of young graduates: A need for more GP training
Author(s) -
Copeman Herbert A.,
Joyner Colin R.,
Murphy Kevin J.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1981.tb112949.x
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , general practice , medical education , preference , medical school , training (meteorology) , medicine , family medicine , psychology , geography , engineering , mechanical engineering , meteorology , economics , microeconomics
A survey of fourth year (first clinical year) medical students at the University of Western Australia in 1977 showed that 48% of them wanted to be general practitioners. When interviewed again as interns in 1980, the same group showed a 61 % preference for general practice. In 1977, 57% of interns and junior RMOs had wished for a career in general practice. During the last five years the proportion of graduates entering the Family Medicine programme has reached as high as 68% in the third year after graduation. In the 25 years since the first medical graduates qualified in Perth the percentage entering general practice has climbed from 15 to 80; the percentage entering the specialties has declined from 85 to 20. This survey is a valuable tool in planning postgraduate training programmes.