![]() ![]() ![]() There are several common sorts of alternative positions for doctors who do not proceed directly from foundation to core or specialty training. 5 6 In other words, more than one in two of UK medical graduates in recent years take time out of the training pathway at the first natural opportunity, at the point when they have full registration and are eligible to apply for specialty training. Instead, the increasing norm is to take a break from the training pathway: more than 50% of doctors at the end of the Foundation Programme (FP) do not proceed directly to core/specialty training. 4 However, in the UK, for example, large numbers of early career doctors are not applying for a specialty training post (residency) at the time when they first become eligible to do so in the second year of the Foundation Year 2 (F2). 1–3 The accurate prediction of medical workforce supply depends on doctors progressing upwards through the stages of medical education and training in ways predicted by the system. The aim of the medical education and training pathway is to provide enough appropriately trained and competent doctors (supply) to meet the current and anticipated healthcare needs of the population (demand). ![]()
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