Bullied trainee doctors twice as likely to take their skills abroad

Frequently bullied trainee doctors are twice as likely to emigrate compared to those who are never bullied, it has emerged. Also, trainees who have an illness, health problem or disability that limits their daily activity are twice as likely to want to leave.

The survey from the Medical Council found that older doctors in training — those aged 35 to 39 — are more likely to want to go abroad.

Older doctors training in specialties such as radiology, anaesthesia, psychiatry, and medicine are more likely to leave than those training in occupational medicine, pathology, and paediatrics.