LEARNING AND TEACHING
Career guidance: how do we inspire students and young doctors to careers in paediatrics and child health?
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Dr Helen Goodyear, West Midlands Workforce Deanery, St Chad’s Court, 213 Hagley Road, Birmingham B16 9RG, UK; Helen.Goodyear@westmidlands.nhs.uk
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Looking after children is a richly rewarding career, but with over 60 different specialties to select from how do medical students and young doctors choose their career and what factors influence that choice? Postal questionnaire surveys of UK graduates have shown that since 1993 around 7.2% of doctors select paediatrics as their career choice 1 year after qualifying.1 In the latest survey this has dropped to 5.5% of graduates selecting paediatrics at the end of the Foundation years (quote 1 in box 1).2 Only 44% of those who chose paediatrics were working in the specialty 10 years later (quote 2 in box 1).1 This article explores career guidance in the field of paediatrics and child health.
HOW DO STUDENTS AND JUNIOR DOCTORS GET CAREER ADVICE AND GUIDANCE?
When medical students arrive at medical school they believe that they have made their career choice, only to be faced with the prospect of having to choose a specialty. It is never too early
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