Graduates of the University of Tasmania Medical School: career achievements 10 to 23 years after graduation

• Published in: Medical journal of Australia 1998-01, Vol.168 (1), p.31-34
• Main Authors: Vial, Janet H, Muller, H Konrad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Fellowships and Scholarships; Female; Health participants; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Schools, Medical - statistics & numerical data; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tasmania; Tropical medicine
• ISSN: 0025-729X; 1326-5377
• DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1998.tb123344.x

Objective To assess the postgraduate achievements of graduates of the University of Tasmania Medical School. Design Postal questionnaire survey in October 1994 and March and May 1995. Participants and setting 262 of the 400 medical graduates of the University of Tasmania who graduated between 1970 and 1983 for whom addresses were held (65.5% response rate). Main outcome measures Achievement of postgraduate qualifications; senior hospital and university appointments; publications in the medical literature; practice location (rural or urban); and sex distribution. Results College fellowships had been obtained by 56%, other formal postgraduate qualifications by 24%, MDs or PhDs by 7%, senior hospital appointments by 46%, and senior university appointments by 21 %; 30% had published in the medical literature. Equal proportions of men and women had obtained postgraduate qualifications, but women were less likely to have a college fellowship, a senior hospital or university appointment, or to have published (P