Quote Originally Posted by barnflakes View Post
Guys, thanks for the replies but unfortunately none has answered my question. Please can we remain on topic.
Topics should be like a conversation - they are at their best when they evolve naturally. They should not, IMO, be prescriptive.

But anyway...

Some people enter GP vocational training (60% of grads ultimately, I think, with a likely shift upwards in terms of %)

Some people go abroad. Some of these will come back to compete in a year or so with a bit more work experience (there may well be a limit to time allowed working in specialty X so most people do a variety of jobs or work in an allied specialty) - and they are often successful as 1. they are more experienced and 2. have a better cv (or equivalent in application form terms).

Some people get a trust grade job (a UK -based non-training job) and then compete as above.

Some get trust grade jobs and never enter specialty training.

Some give up clinical medicine (to do research, pharma work, law, etc etc).

None of this is new. There were always Drs who couldn't get onto the training rotations that they wanted to - but now there is much more limited opportunity to keep trying.