Review of Literature Casey et al used a survey to evaluate the stresses and challenges experienced by new graduates in 6 acute care hospitals during a 1-year period. Several overall themes were apparent in the new graduates’ reports of what was most difficult in their transition from student to nurse: • Lack of confidence in skill performance • Deficits in critical thinking and clinical knowled...

University-trained psychiatrists frequently avoid public-sector employment because they do not wish to be associated with stigmatized institutions. Inspirational recruitment--the elevation of poorly paid and unpleasant work to a noble cause--is one way of temporarily destigmatizing state psychiatry. The authors describe the impact of one such effort, the Maryland Plan, on recruitment of graduat...

BACKGROUND The UK General Medical Council has emphasized the lack of evidence on whether graduates from different UK medical schools perform differently in their clinical careers. Here we assess the performance of UK graduates who have taken MRCP(UK) Part 1 and Part 2, which are multiple-choice assessments, and PACES, an assessment using real and simulated patients of clinical examination skill...

The importance of developing employability attributes within university graduates is gaining rapid momentum in the UK. One reason for this is that employers in the UK are disappointed by the quality of graduates moving into the workforce; this sentiment has also been echoed by the UK Government. With this in mind, attempts have been made to identify general attributes that lead to employability...

The phrase ‘recruitment crisis’ in psychiatry is unfortunately not an alien concept, with the number of UK graduates entering psychiatry not matching workforce needs. In fact, recruitment ‘crisis’ is perhaps a misnomer, as recruitment into psychiatry has been consistently low at around 4% of UK graduates since the 1970s (Goldacre 2005). In the past, overseas recruits to the specialty have compe...

The aims of this study were to examine perceptions of what a sample of students and graduates consider an excessive alcohol intake to be and it's effect on their health. 115 University College Cork (UCC) students and 133 UCC graduates were questioned about their opinions of an acceptable weekly intake of alcohol. The results reveal dramatic changes in drinking habits over recent decades. Studen...