Views of junior doctors about whether their medical school prepared them well for work: questionnaire surveys

BMC Medical Education

Table 3 Percentage of respondents* who specified that their medical schools had not prepared them well (and denominator numbers, N)

Year 1/characteristic		N	Clinical knowledge	Clinical procedures	Admin	Interpersonal skills	Demands**
	All	5863	17.9	31.5	33.8	2.8	24.2
Cohort	2000	-	-	-	-	-	-
	2002	2750	18.6	36.7¹	34.9	2.4	26.3¹
	2005	3113	17.3	26.9¹	32.9	2.1	22.4¹
Sex	Male	2255	18.1	29.6¹	37.9¹	2.8	19.2¹
	Female	3608	17.8	32.7¹	31.3¹	1.9	27.3¹
Ethnicity	White	4206	17.7	30.9	32.9	1.9¹	23.2¹
	Non white	1604	18.5	32.9	36.2	3.2¹	26.9¹
Intercalated	Yes	2481	16.8	31.5	34.3	2.3	23.4
degree	No	3324	18.9	31.5	33.6	2.2	24.9
Graduate	Yes	603	19.1	30.5	30.5	2.2	24.0
entrant	No	5222	17.8	31.6	34.2	2.3	24.2
Year 3/characteristic		N	Clinical knowledge	Clinical procedures	Admin	Interpersonal skills	Demands*
	All	7795	23.7	42.7	32.4^ns	4.2	30.7
Cohort	2000	2929	22.3¹	44.5	33.7^1,ns	5.0¹	32.3¹
	2002	2321	22.1¹	40.8	25.9¹	3.0^1,ns	26.2^1,ns
	2005	2545	26.6¹	42.3	36.8¹	4.2¹	33.0¹
Sex	Male	3107	24.1	40.1¹	36.5^1,ns	5.0¹	24.4¹
	Female	4688	23.4	44.3¹	29.6^1,ns	3.6¹	34.8¹
Ethnicity	White	5371	24.0	43.1	30.9^1,ns	3.2¹	28.9¹
	Non white	1801	22.9	42.4	35.9^1,ns	6.7¹	35.5¹
Intercalated	Yes	2993	22.2¹	42.2	33.9^1,ns	4.7	30.6
degree	No	4160	24.9¹	43.3	30.8^ns	3.6	30.3
Graduate	Yes	715	21.1^ns	39.6	26.2^1,ns	2.5^ns	26.7^ns
entrant	No	6461	24.0	43.3	32.9^1,ns	4.2	30.9

* Percentages of respondents who expressed an opinion about the statement 'Experience at medical school prepared me well for jobs I have undertaken so far.' We received replies to these questions from some respondents who had agreed, overall, with the statement on preparedness. We included these replies in our analysis of the specific aspects of feeling unprepared.
** Physical, emotional and mental demands.
¹ Significant difference (at 0.01 level) within year 1, or within year 3, for each characteristic
All differences between corresponding cells in year 1 and year 3 were significant, except those marked ^ns

ISSN: 1472-6920