BMJ  2004;329 (27 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7477.0-a

Doctors leave UK for better lifestyles

The most common reasons for wanting to leave both medicine and the United Kingdom are lifestyle and working conditions, and only a minority of doctors give positive reasons such as wanting to work in developing countries or an interest in a different career. Moss and colleagues (p 1263) posted questionnaires to 4221 doctors who qualified in 1999, asking them about their intentions regarding practising in Britain. Almost two thirds of respondents (1777/2727) said they did not definitely intend to practise medicine in the United Kingdom. The wish to work abroad, but to stay in medicine, was more common than the wish to leave medicine.

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Reasons for considering leaving UK medicine: questionnaire study of junior doctors' comments

Philip J Moss, Trevor W Lambert, Michael J Goldacre, and Penelope Lee
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