Trainees from private schools are less likely to become GPs, researchers say

Abstract

Junior doctors who attended private school are less likely to enter general practice training than those from state schools, researchers have found. A study by researchers from the University of York’s Centre for Health Economics found that trainees from better off socioeconomic backgrounds were “less likely to be based in general practice than in any other specialty.”1 Using data from the General Medical Council’s 2013 National Training Survey, the researchers found …