Factors influencing junior doctors' choices of future specialty: trends over time and demographics based on results from UK national surveys

Conclusions
The increasing importance of both domestic circumstances and enthusiasm for their specialty choice in recent cohorts suggest that today’s young doctors prize both work-life balance and personal fulfilment at work more highly than did their predecessors. The differences in motivations of older and younger generations of doctors, men and women, and doctors who start medical school relatively late are worthy of note.

Source: JRSM - October 12, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: Smith, F., Lambert, T. W., Goldacre, M. J. Tags: Research article Source Type: research