Research
Published Research about UKMED
Title Publisher Date
Chapter 5: Where do graduates go? A case study of the United Kingdom Medical Education Database (UKMED)
Peter Tang, Olga Sierocinska King, Katie Petty-Saphon, Daniel Smith, Thomas Oppé, Steve Thornton, Jonathan Dowell
WHO December 2022
The UK medical education database (UKMED) what is it? Why and how might you use it?
Jon Dowell, Jennifer Cleland, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Chris McManus, Sandra Nicholson, Thomas Oppé, Katie Petty-Saphon, Olga Sierocinska King, Daniel Smith, Steve Thornton, Kirsty White
BMC Medical Education January 2018
Chapter 23: Big Data: where to start and what to expect in Starting Research in Clinical Education
Milou Silkens, Asta Medisauskaite, and Chris McManus
Wiley-Blackwell November 2023
Published Research using UKMED data
Title Identifier Publisher Scripts Date
Situational judgement testing at different stages of undergraduate medical training and the risk of professionalism lapses: A cohort study
Gurvinder Sahota, Paul A. Tiffin, Daniel Smith, Edward Tyrrell, Mandy Hampshire, Jaspal Taggar
UKMEDP128 Medical Education
    August 2025
    Modelling the future consultant physician workforce in the United Kingdom: will the NHS workforce plan meet future demand?
    Srinivasa, A., Lovibond, K., Carter, E., Philips, C., Newbery, N., Trudgill, N
    UKMEDP058 SSRN
      April 2025
      The validity of the selection methods for recruitment to UK core psychiatry training: cohort study
      Tiffin PA, Morley E, Paton LW, Chakraborty N, Patterson F.
      UKMEDP155 BJPsych Bulletin
        March 2025
        DiffErential attainment and Factors AssoCiated with Training applications and Outcomes (DE FACTO) Study: Plastic Surgery in the United Kingdom
        Grover, S. et al
        UKMEDP134 Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
          February 2025
          Language of primary medical qualification and differential MRCGP exam attainment: an observational study
          Tzortziou Brown, V. et al
          UKMEDP160 British Journal of General Practice
            February 2025
            Unequal Treatment? Access to medicine for socio-economically disadvantaged students
            Woolf, K. et al
            UKMEDP197 Sutton Trust website
              February 2025
              Does training less-than-full-time predict performance at the FRCR exams?: a UKMED cohort study
              Pakpoor, J. et al
              UKMEDP163 Clinical Radiology
                February 2025
                Differential attainment at national selection for higher surgical training: a retrospective cohort study
                Ellis, R. et al
                UKMEDP111 BMJ Open
                  January 2025
                  DiffErential attainment and Factors AssoCiated with Training applications and Outcomes (DE FACTO) for general surgery applications in the UK: retrospective study
                  Grover S, Raj S, Spazzapan M, Russell B, Bola H, Biju N, Malde S, Fleming S, Vig S.
                  UKMEDP134 BJS Open
                    December 2024
                    Big data analysis: examination of the relationship between candidates’ sociodemographic characteristics and performance in the UK’s Membership of the Royal College of Physicians Part 1 examination.
                    Johnston, P.W., Vieira, R., Cameron, I.M. et al.
                    UKMEDP088 Adv in Health Sci Educ
                      December 2024
                      Fostering Potential: 10 years on from Selecting for Excellence
                      Fletcher, E., Garrud, P., Krstic, C. and Owen C.
                      UKMEDP196 Medical Schools Council website
                        December 2024
                        The impact of disability on recruitment to higher surgical specialty training: A retrospective cohort study
                        Ellis, R. et al
                        UKMEDP111 The Surgeon
                          December 2024
                          DiffErential attainment and Factors AssoCiated with Training applications and Outcomes (DE FACTO) study: Trauma & Orthopaedic surgery in the UK
                          Raj S, Grover S, Spazzapan M, et al.
                          UKMEDP134 Bone Jt Open
                            August 2024
                            Differential attainment and factors associated with training applications and outcomes: Urology in the United Kingdom
                            Martina Spazzapan, Sarika Grover, Siddarth Raj, Beth Russell, Sachin Malde, Stella Vig, Simon Fleming
                            UKMEDP134 BJU Int
                              August 2024
                              New evidence on the validity of the selection methods for recruitment to general practice training: a cohort study
                              Paul A Tiffin, Emma Morley, Lewis W Paton, Fiona Patterson
                              UKMEDP155 BJGP Open
                                July 2024
                                Determining the distance patterns in the movements of future doctors in UK between 2002 and 2015: a retrospective cohort study
                                Hitchings L, Fleet B, Smith DT, et al
                                UKMEDP044 BMJ Open
                                  February 2024
                                  Is the awarding gap at UK medical schools influenced by ethnicity and medical school attended? A retrospective cohort study.
                                  Brown C, Goss C, Sam AH
                                  UKMEDP121 BMJ Open
                                    December 2023
                                    How do the post-graduation outcomes of students from gateway courses compare to those from standard entry medicine courses at the same medical schools?
                                    Elmansouri A., Curtis S., Nursaw C., Smith D.
                                    UKMEDP038 BMC Medical Education
                                      May 2023
                                      Is Educational Tracking a Level Playing Field? An Empirical Analysis
                                      Yihui Cao, Thomas Triebs, Justin Tumlinson
                                      UKMEDP136 UKMED
                                        November 2022
                                        Institutional choice among medical applicants: a profile paper for The United Kingdom Medical Applicant Cohort Study (UKMACS) prospective longitudinal cohort study.
                                        David Harrison, IC McManus, Eliot L Rees, Katherine Woolf
                                        UKMEDP089 BMJ Open
                                          September 2022
                                          Factors associated with declaration of disability in medical students and junior doctors, and the association of declared disability with academic performance: observational study using data from the UK Medical Education Database, 2002–2018 (UKMED54)
                                          Michael J Murphy, Jon S Dowell, Daniel T Smith
                                          UKMEDP054 BMJ Open
                                            April 2022
                                            Situational judgement test performance and subsequent misconduct in medical students.
                                            Tiffin, PA, Sanger, E, Smith, DT, Troughton, A, Paton, LW.
                                            UKMEDP115 Medical Education
                                              March 2022
                                              Differential attainment at MRCS according to gender, ethnicity, age and socioeconomic factors: a retrospective cohort study
                                              Ricky Ellis, Peter A Brennan, Amanda J Lee, Duncan SG Scrimgeour, Jennifer Cleland
                                              UKMEDP043 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
                                                February 2022
                                                Differences in progression by surgical specialty: a national cohort study.
                                                Carla Hope, Jonathan Lund, Gareth Griffiths, David Humes
                                                UKMEDP083 BMJ Open
                                                  February 2022
                                                  Can achievement at medical admission tests predict future performance in postgraduate clinical assessments? A UK-based national cohort study.
                                                  Lewis W Paton, C McManus, Kevin Yet Fong Cheung, Daniel Thomas Smith, Paul A Tiffin
                                                  UKMEDP051 BMJ Open
                                                    February 2022
                                                    Does performance at the intercollegiate Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (MRCS) examination vary according to UK medical school and course type? A retrospective cohort study.
                                                    Ricky Ellis, Peter A Brennan, Duncan S G Scrimgeour, Amanda J Lee, Jennifer Cleland
                                                    UKMEDP043 BMJ Open
                                                      January 2022
                                                      Predictive validity of A-level grades and teacher-predicted grades in UK medical school applicants: a retrospective analysis of administrative data in a time of COVID-19
                                                      I C McManus, Katherine Woolf, David Harrison, Paul A Tiffin, Lewis W Paton, Kevin Yet Fong Cheung, Daniel T Smith
                                                      UKMEDP112 BMJ Open
                                                        December 2021
                                                        Personal characteristics associated with progression in general surgery training: a longitudinal cohort study
                                                        C Hope, H Boyd-Carson, H Phillips, G Griffiths, D Humes, J Lund
                                                        UKMEDP083 Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons of England
                                                          August 2021
                                                          Personal Characteristics Associated with Progression in Trauma and Orthopaedic Specialty Training: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
                                                          Carla Hope, David Humes, Gareth Griffiths, Jonathan Lund
                                                          UKMEDP083 Journal of Surgical Education
                                                            July 2021
                                                            Does performance at medical school predict success at the Intercollegiate Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) examination? A retrospective cohort study.
                                                            Ricky Ellis, Duncan S G Scrimgeour, Peter A Brennan, Amanda J Lee, Jennifer Cleland
                                                            UKMEDP043 BMJ Open
                                                              July 2021
                                                              The impact of disability on performance in a high-stakes postgraduate surgical examination: a retrospective cohort study.
                                                              R Ellis, J Cleland, DSG Scrimgeour, AJ Lee, PA Brennan
                                                              UKMEDP043 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
                                                                July 2021
                                                                Predictors of ophthalmology career success (POCS) study
                                                                Aditi Das, Daniel Smith, Rashmi G Mathew
                                                                UKMEDP039 BMJ Open Ophthalmology
                                                                  July 2021
                                                                  Access to HE qualifications and widening participation in medicine
                                                                  Paul Garrud, Gordon Dent, Julie Mizon, Natalie Cope
                                                                  UKMEDP091 UKMED
                                                                    July 2021
                                                                    Uncovering trends in training progression for a national cohort of psychiatry trainees: discrete-time survival analysis
                                                                    Milou E.W.M. Silkens, Shah-Jalal Sarker, Asta Medisauskaite
                                                                    UKMEDP098 BJPsych Open
                                                                      June 2021
                                                                      Is Academic Attainment or Situational Judgement Test Performance in Medical School Associated With the Likelihood of Disciplinary Action? A National Retrospective Cohort Study
                                                                      Sam, Amir H, Bala, Laksha, Westacott, Rachel J., Brown, Celia
                                                                      UKMEDP107 Academic Medicine
                                                                        June 2021
                                                                        Development of a UKMED multidimensional measure of widening participation status.
                                                                        Paul Lambe, Martin Roberts, Tom Gale, David Bristow
                                                                        UKMEDP041 UKMED
                                                                          March 2021
                                                                          Performance at medical school selection correlates with success in Part A of the intercollegiate Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) examination
                                                                          Ricky Ellis, Peter Brennan, Duncan SG Scrimgeour, Amanda J Lee, Jennifer Cleland
                                                                          UKMEDP043 Postgraduate Medical Journal
                                                                            March 2021
                                                                            Could the UK Foundation Programme training post allocation process result in regional variations in the knowledge and skills of Foundation doctors? A cross‐sectional study
                                                                            Christopher Beck, Celia Brown
                                                                            UKMEDP106 Health Science Reports
                                                                              November 2020
                                                                              ‘10% of your medical students will cause 90% of your problems’: a prospective correlational study
                                                                              Marina Sawdon, JC McLachlan
                                                                              UKMEDP077 BMJ Open
                                                                                November 2020
                                                                                Differential attainment in the MRCPsych according to ethnicity and place of qualification between 2013 and 2018: a UK cohort study
                                                                                Paul Tiffin, Lewis Paton
                                                                                UKMEDP103 BMJ Journals
                                                                                  September 2020
                                                                                  Calculated grades, predicted grades, forecasted grades and actual A-level grades: Reliability, correlations and predictive validity in medical school applicants, undergraduates, and postgraduates in a time of COVID-19
                                                                                  Chris McManus, Katherine Woolf, Dave Harrison, Paul Tiffin, Lewis Paton, Kevin Yet Fong Cheung, Daniel Smith
                                                                                  UKMEDP112 medRxiv
                                                                                    June 2020
                                                                                    A comparison of undergraduate outcomes for students from gateway courses and standard entry medicine courses
                                                                                    Sally Curtis, Daniel Smith
                                                                                    UKMEDP038 BMC Medical Education
                                                                                      January 2020
                                                                                      Are there differences between those doctors who apply for a training post in Foundation Year 2 and those who take time out of the training pathway? A UK multicohort study
                                                                                      Jennifer Cleland, Gordon Prescott, Kim Walker, Peter Johnston, Ben Kumwenda
                                                                                      UKMEDP046 BMJ Open
                                                                                        November 2019
                                                                                        What factors predict doctors’ successful completion of core training in medicine and anaesthetics and their subsequent decisions to pursue higher specialist training?
                                                                                        Tom Gale, Paul Lambe, Martin Roberts
                                                                                        UKMEDP032 UKMED
                                                                                          November 2019
                                                                                          A sequential analysis of the specialty allocation process in the UK. Empirical evidence from the UKMED database.
                                                                                          Idaira Rodriguez Santana,Martin Chalkley
                                                                                          UKMEDP022 UKMED
                                                                                            July 2019
                                                                                            Sociodemographic and educational characteristics of doctors applying for psychiatry training in the UK: Secondary analysis of data from the UK Medical Education Database project.
                                                                                            Lambe, P., Gale, T., Price, T., & Roberts, M. (n.d.).
                                                                                            UKMEDP030 BJPsych Bulletin
                                                                                              May 2019
                                                                                              Relationship between sociodemographic factors and specialty destination of UK trainee doctors: a national cohort study
                                                                                              Ben Kumwenda, Jennifer Cleland, Gordon Prescott, Kim Walker, Peter Johnston
                                                                                              UKMEDP026 BMJ Open
                                                                                                March 2019
                                                                                                Effect of sex on specialty training application outcomes: a longitudinal administrative data study of UK medical graduates
                                                                                                Katherine Woolf, Hirosha Jayaweera, Emily Unwin, Karim Keshwani, Christopher Valerio, Henry Potts
                                                                                                UKMEDP020 BMJ Open
                                                                                                  March 2019
                                                                                                  Geographical mobility of UK trainee doctors, from family home to first job: a national cohort study
                                                                                                  Ben Kumwenda, Jennifer A Cleland, Gordon J Prescott, Kim Walker, Peter W Johnston
                                                                                                  UKMEDP026 BMC Medical Education
                                                                                                    December 2018
                                                                                                    Impact of accelerated, graduate-entry medicine courses: a comparison of profile, success, and specialty destination between graduate entrants to accelerated or standard medicine courses in UK
                                                                                                    Paul Garrud, Chris McManus
                                                                                                    UKMEDP002 BMC Medical Education
                                                                                                      November 2018
                                                                                                      Evaluating the validity of the selection measures used for the UK’s foundation medical training programme: a national cohort study
                                                                                                      Daniel Smith, Paul Tiffin
                                                                                                      UKMEDP003 BMJ Open
                                                                                                        July 2018
                                                                                                        Relationship between sociodemographic factors and selection into UK postgraduate medical training programmes: a national cohort study
                                                                                                        Ben Kumwenda, Jennifer A Cleland, Gordon J Prescott, Kim Walker, Peter W Johnston
                                                                                                        UKMEDP026 BMJ Open
                                                                                                          June 2018
                                                                                                          Predictors of fitness to practise declarations in UK medical undergraduates
                                                                                                          Lewis Paton, Paul Tiffin, Daniel Smith, Jon Dowell, Lazaro Mwandigha
                                                                                                          UKMEDP001 BMC Medical Education
                                                                                                            April 2018
                                                                                                            Factors associated with junior doctors’decisions to apply for general practice training programmes in the UK: secondary analysis of data from the UKMED project
                                                                                                            Thomas C. E. Gale, Paul J. Lambe, Martin J. Roberts
                                                                                                            UKMEDP030 BMC Medicine
                                                                                                              December 2017
                                                                                                              The relationship between school type and academic performance at medical school: a national, multi-cohort study
                                                                                                              Ben Kumwenda, Jennifer A Cleland, Kim Walker, Amanda J Lee, Rachel Greatrix
                                                                                                              UKMEDP026 BMJ Open
                                                                                                                September 2017