scholarly journals Uncovering trends in training progression for a national cohort of psychiatry trainees: discrete-time survival analysis

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milou E.W.M. Silkens ◽  
Shah-Jalal Sarker ◽  
Asta Medisauskaite

Background The global rise in mental health issues calls for a strong psychiatry workforce. Yet, psychiatry training worldwide is facing recruitment challenges, causing unfilled consultant posts and possibly threatening the quality of patient care. An in-depth understanding of trainees’ progression through training is warranted to explore what happens to recruited trainees during training. Aims To uncover current trends in psychiatry trainees’ progression through training in the UK. Method This national retrospective cohort study with data from the UK Medical Education Database used discrete-time survival analysis to analyse training progression for those trainees who started their core psychiatry post in 2012–2017 (2820 trainees; 59.6% female, 67.6% UK graduates (UKGs)). The impact of sociodemographic characteristics on training progression were also investigated. Results The overall probability of completing training in 6 years (minimum years required to complete psychiatry training in the UK) was 17.2% (ranging from 4.8% for non-UKG females to 29% for UKG males). The probability to not progress was highest (57.1%) from core to specialty training. For UKGs, trainees from ethnicities other than White, trainees with a disability, and trainees who had experienced childhood social deprivation (measured as entitlement to free school meals) had a significantly (P ≤ 0.02) lower probability of completing training in 6 years. Conclusions Less than one in five psychiatry trainees are likely to complete training in 6 years and this probability varies across groups of doctors. Completing psychiatry training in 6 years is, therefore, the exception rather than the norm and this has important implications for trainees, those planning psychiatry workforces or responsible for psychiatry training.

2011 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanno Petras ◽  
Katherine E. Masyn ◽  
Jacquelyn A. Buckley ◽  
Nicholas S. Ialongo ◽  
Sheppard Kellam

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. e027845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Dodds ◽  
Rowena Johnson ◽  
Benjamin Walton ◽  
Omar Bouamra ◽  
David Yates ◽  
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ObjectivesIn the last 10 years there has been a significant increase in cycle traffic in the UK, with an associated increase in the overall number of cycling injuries. Despite this, and the significant media, political and public health debate into this issue, there remains an absence of studies from the UK assessing the impact of helmet use on rates of serious injury presenting to the National Health Service (NHS) in cyclists.SettingThe NHS England Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN) Database was interrogated to identify all adult (≥16 years) patients presenting to hospital with cycling-related major injuries, during a period from 14 March 2012 to 30 September 2017 (the last date for which a validated dataset was available).Participants11 192 patients met inclusion criteria. Data on the use of cycling helmets were available in 6621 patients.Outcome measuresTARN injury descriptors were used to compare patterns of injury, care and mortality in helmeted versus non-helmeted cohorts.ResultsData on cycle helmet use were available for 6621 of the 11 192 cycle-related injuries entered onto the TARN Database in the 66 months of this study (93 excluded as not pedal cyclists). There was a significantly higher crude 30-day mortality in un-helmeted cyclists 5.6% (4.8%–6.6%) versus helmeted cyclists 1.8% (1.4%–2.2%) (p<0.001). Cycle helmet use was also associated with a reduction in severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) 19.1% (780, 18.0%–20.4%) versus 47.6% (1211, 45.6%–49.5%) (p<0.001), intensive care unit requirement 19.6% (797, 18.4%–20.8%) versus 27.1% (691, 25.4%–28.9%) (p<0.001) and neurosurgical intervention 2.5% (103, 2.1%–3.1%) versus 8.5% (217, 7.5%–9.7%) (p<0.001). There was a statistically significant increase in chest, spinal, upper and lower limb injury in the helmeted group in comparison to the un-helmeted group (all p<0.001), though in a subsequent analysis of these anatomical injury patterns, those cyclists wearing helmets were still found to have lower rates of TBI. In reviewing TARN injury codes for specific TBI and facial injuries, there was a highly significant decrease in rates of impact injury between cyclists wearing helmets and those not.ConclusionsThis study suggests that there is a significant correlation between use of cycle helmets and reduction in adjusted mortality and morbidity associated with TBI and facial injury.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. P1355-P1355
Author(s):  
Graham M.L. Eglit ◽  
Joel S. Eppig ◽  
Kelsey R. Thomas ◽  
Christina G. Wong ◽  
Alexandra J. Weigand ◽  
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