Today's survey (warning! PDF) is one of 3000 UK medical graduates from 2003-5, conducted by the General Medical Council. It's not exactly a surprise to find that being a medical student gives a good guarantee of a good job, but the interesting thing is in the detail.
95% of all students were working as doctors (and 99% of those were in the NHS, with military medical posts the next most popular) at the time of the survey, and the majority of those that weren't were doing it out of choice.
However, 2%, or 67 graduates, were not working as doctors and wanted to be - although almost all of them had worked as a doctor since graduating.
The number of medical students graduating has remained relatively steady for a number of years, and this implies that we're training about the right number at the moment.
There's some interesting things in there about specialisation, and the future plans of young doctors as well. Well worth a read (and it isn't too long).
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