A national analysis of the medical schools of training for merit award-winning laboratory medical doctors working in Britain.

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  • Author(s): Steele S;Steele S; Andrade G; Andrade G
  • Source:
    BMC medical education [BMC Med Educ] 2023 Apr 07; Vol. 23 (1), pp. 222. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 07.
  • Publication Type:
    Journal Article
  • Language:
    English
  • Additional Information
    • Source:
      Publisher: BioMed Central Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101088679 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1472-6920 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 14726920 NLM ISO Abbreviation: BMC Med Educ Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: London : BioMed Central, [2001-
    • Subject Terms:
      Awards and Prizes* ; Physicians*/statistics & numerical data ; Schools, Medical*/statistics & numerical data; Humans ; United Kingdom/epidemiology ; Europe/epidemiology
    • Abstract:
      Aims: To inform the discussion regarding the origins of Laboratory Medical Consultant clinical merit award holders (LMC) whether the awards came from the Clinical Excellence Awards (CEA) or Distinction Awards (DA) schemes.
      Methods: Setting - CEA is a scheme to financially reward senior doctors in England and Wales who are assessed to be working over and above the standard expected of their role. The DA scheme is the parallel and equivalent scheme in Scotland. Participants - All of the merit award holders in the 2019 round. Design - This involved a secondary analysis of the complete 2019 published dataset of award winners. Statistical analyses were performed with Chi-square tests set at p < 0.05 level for statistical significance.
      Results: The top five medical schools (London University, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Oxford) were responsible for 68.4% of the LMC merit award holders in the 2019 round. 97.9% of the LMC merit award holders were from European medical schools, whereas 90.9% of the non-LMC award holders were from European medical schools. The LMCs with A plus or platinum awards came from only six medical schools: Aberdeen, Edinburgh, London University, Oxford, Sheffield and Southampton. In contrast, the B or silver/bronze LMC award holders came from a more diverse background of 13 medical schools.
      Conclusions: The majority of LMC merit award holders originated from only five university medical schools. All the LMCs with A plus or platinum awards came from only six university medical schools. There is an apparent overrepresentation of a small number of medical schools of origin amongst those LMCs that hold national merit awards.
      (© 2023. The Author(s).)
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    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: Award-winning; Britain; Career success; Medical careers; Medical schools; Medical training
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20230407 Date Completed: 20230416 Latest Revision: 20230416
    • Publication Date:
      20240829
    • Accession Number:
      PMC10082534
    • Accession Number:
      10.1186/s12909-023-04161-z
    • Accession Number:
      37029376