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Uncovering trends in training progression for a national cohort of psychiatry trainees: discrete-time survival analysis
- Source :
- BJPsych Open
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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Abstract
- Background The global rise in mental health issues calls for a strong psychiatry workforce. Yet, psychiatry training worldwide is facing recruitment challenges, causing unfilled consultant posts and possibly threatening the quality of patient care. An in-depth understanding of trainees’ progression through training is warranted to explore what happens to recruited trainees during training. Aims To uncover current trends in psychiatry trainees’ progression through training in the UK. Method This national retrospective cohort study with data from the UK Medical Education Database used discrete-time survival analysis to analyse training progression for those trainees who started their core psychiatry post in 2012–2017 (2820 trainees; 59.6% female, 67.6% UK graduates (UKGs)). The impact of sociodemographic characteristics on training progression were also investigated. Results The overall probability of completing training in 6 years (minimum years required to complete psychiatry training in the UK) was 17.2% (ranging from 4.8% for non-UKG females to 29% for UKG males). The probability to not progress was highest (57.1%) from core to specialty training. For UKGs, trainees from ethnicities other than White, trainees with a disability, and trainees who had experienced childhood social deprivation (measured as entitlement to free school meals) had a significantly (P ≤ 0.02) lower probability of completing training in 6 years. Conclusions Less than one in five psychiatry trainees are likely to complete training in 6 years and this probability varies across groups of doctors. Completing psychiatry training in 6 years is, therefore, the exception rather than the norm and this has important implications for trainees, those planning psychiatry workforces or responsible for psychiatry training.
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education
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UKMED
discrete survival analysis
Medicine
psychiatry training
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Psychiatry
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business.industry
training progression
Education and training
Retrospective cohort study
Mental health
030227 psychiatry
Psychiatry and Mental health
Social deprivation
Workforce
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20564724
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BJPsych Open
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7291f4c19bdb1538c8a0430a5b68fe25