National Training Survey: background

In 2005 a national survey of medical trainees was begun by a collaboration of Postgraduate Deaneries across the UK.

The purpose of the survey was to gather feedback from trainees to help local education providers improve their training practice.

The survey was taken over and developed by the newly formed Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB). PMETB merged with the GMC in April 2010 and we have run the 2010 and 2011 National Training Surveys.

The 2010 and 2011 surveys have surveyed both trainees and trainers.

The trainee survey is comprised of a set of core questions which test trainees’ perceptions of training providers’ compliance with our standards, and specialty specific questions set by Royal Colleges and Faculties which test their perceptions of the quality of delivery of the curricula.

We are undertaking a review of the National Training Survey ahead of the 2012 survey which you can read about in the survey development project page.

Results of the 2011 survey were made available to the deaneries in September 2011 and to the public in November 2011. You can see results and reports from 2011 and previous surveys in our survey results page.