Recruitment in anaesthesia: results of two national surveys

Two national surveys were conducted in order to understand better the dynamics of anaesthesia recruitment. The first survey documented undergraduate anaesthesia curricula in Canadian medical schools. Also documented was the number of students from each school entering anaesthesia at the first-year postgraduate level (PGY1) in 1993; the number was then correlated with the undergraduate anaesthesia exposure in that school. Although all medical …