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Kilkey, Majella

Lunt, Neil

Martinez Perez, Alvaro

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BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION'S COHORT STUDY OF 2006 MEDICAL GRADUATES:LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF CAREER TRAJECTORIES

This report presents the findings of a longitudinal analysis of the ten years of the BMA's 2006 Cohort

Study of Medical Graduates, which has been undertaken by an independent team of researchers from

the Universities of Sheffield and York. The longitudinal analysis focuses on the career trajectories

of the medical graduates over the ten year period of the cohort study. Specifically, it is concerned

with establishing:



- the range of career trajectories and changes within;



- the drivers behind different career trajectories and changes within;



- the relationship between career intentions and career behaviour.



Due to its robustness relative to other variables, the analysis highlights in particular gender

dimensions of career trajectories. Section1 presents the key findings. Section 2 provides background

information on the BMA's 2006 Cohort Study. Section 3 explains the conceptual and methodological

approach adopted in the longitudinal analysis. Section 4 presents the results of the descriptive

longitudinal analysis in two parts. Firstly, it examines patterns of change over time in the intentions

of the junior doctors towards their careers, focusing on: their ultimate career goals, their intended area

of medicine, their intention to work overseas and their intention to work outside the NHS. Secondly,

it examines patterns of change over time in the actual behavioural choices of the doctors surveyed

towards their careers, focusing on: career moves, including career breaks and overseas working;

speciality moves; and career progression. Section 5 presents the results of the multivariate analysis

undertaken to examine the impact of socio-demographic factors on career decisions taken by junior

doctors over time. Section 6 situates the findings reported in the previous section in a wider social

policy context, focusing on two areas in particular: workforce and morale (including NHS funding,

pay, working hours, staffing, recruitment), and the gendered characteristics of junior doctors’ career

trajectories. We juxtapose external policy drivers (within health policy, immigration and family

policy) and their hypothesised impacts with the evidence from the longitudinal analysis of the cohort

study. Section 7 finally, highlights areas for further research

Kilkey, M.

Lunt, N.

Martinez-Perez, A.

British Medical Association's Cohort Study of 2006 Medical Graduates: Longitudinal Analysis of Career Trajectories

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION'S COHORT STUDY OF 2006 MEDICAL GRADUATES : LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF CAREER TRAJECTORIES

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BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION'S COHORT STUDY OF 2006 MEDICAL GRADUATES : LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF CAREER TRAJECTORIES

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