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Addressing the success-satisfaction paradox in UK defence GP training
  1. Toby James Holland and
  2. K King
  1. Academic Department of Military General Practice, Research and Clinical Innovation, Defence Medical Services, Birmingham, UK
  1. Correspondence to Toby James Holland; toby.holland634{at}mod.gov.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/military-2023-002598

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    UK Defence GP Speciality Trainees (GPSTs) undertake the same GP training programme as their civilian counterparts, meeting the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and General Medical Council standards for licensing. They are successful, consistently achieving over 80% pass rates in all assessments; regularly among the highest achieving deaneries. Despite this success, in 2015 the National Training Survey (NTS) demonstrated that DMS GPSTs were consistently less satisfied than their NHS colleagues in four key areas; feedback on educational progress, educational supervision, regional teaching and workload.1 Furthermore, they were persistently less satisfied with the adequacy of their training experience compared with other indicators.

    Coined the ‘Success-Satisfaction Paradox’, focus groups and semistructured interviews with Defence GPSTs revealed the …

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    • Contributors TJH wrote the manuscript with guidance and drafting from KK.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.