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24,000+ trainees speak in 2024
The MTS is a longitudinal survey that tracks the quality of medical training. It was created for trainees, with trainees, after a successful campaign by trainees. Click here to read more...
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It’s your data – use it! You can dig into MTS data and create your own report! Want to compare training culture across workplaces? Or line up feedback about training across Australia or between colleges? Click here for a quick video on how to create your own report and use the interactive data dashboard.
SURVEY FAQs
How do I access the survey results?
The results for previous Medical Training Surveys (MTS) are available in the Results section of the website. The results can be accessed in a variety of formats:
- National and static reports – these can be downloaded - click on the ‘Report and results’ tab do you mean static reports - National and by cohort, state and territory, specialist medial college
- High-level snapshot – you compare state/territory responses with the national response under the ‘Dashboard’ tab
- Create your own report – you can create your own tailored report by using the advanced filters and/or comparison tool - by click on the ‘Create your own report’ tab. You can view your tailored report onscreen or have it emailed to you as a PDF or Excel file.
How do I create my own report?
You can create your own report using the ‘advanced filters’ and/or comparison tool in the Create your own report section of this website.
Use the ‘advanced filters’ and/or comparison tool in the data dashboard to select the fields you want, hit ‘apply’ and the specific results you’ve requested will be displayed (providing confidentiality thresholds have been met). You can download the results or have a PDF or Excel report emailed to you by submitting your email when you are ready to generate your report. It will take no longer than 1 business day to receive your report.
When does the MTS start?
The 2024 MTS has now closed. The 2025 MTS will open in August 2025.
NEWS
Racism and sexual harassment faced by medical trainees
New questions bring new insights: Medical Training Survey results strengthen data value
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical trainees report experiencing and/or witnessing racism at more than double the rate of colleagues, the latest Medical Training Survey (MTS) has found.
Results of the 2024 MTS also reveal more than 1,000 trainees (five per cent) reported experiencing and/or witnessing sexual harassment.
One third of trainees (33%) reported having experienced and/or witnessed bullying, discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment and/or racism, spiking to 54% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trainees and 44% of interns.
Medical Board of Australia Chair, Dr Anne Tonkin AO, said 38% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trainees reported experiencing or witnessing racism, compared to 17% of other trainees.
‘I am appalled by what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trainees report. Clearly, our efforts to strengthen cultural safety in medicine and the health system more widely are urgent and well targeted. Our health system...
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24,000+ trainees speak in 2024 Medical Training Survey
Strength in numbers
More than half Australia’s doctors in training did the 2024 Medical Training Survey (MTS) – and in just a few weeks we’ll know what more than 24,000 trainees have said.
2024 MTS results will be out online in early December 2024, in static reports. The online MTS data dashboard will go live with searchable results in late January 2025.
Data from past years is already being used across the health sector to guide improvements in medical training.
The MTS is a longitudinal survey that tracks the quality of medical training. It was created for trainees, with trainees, after a successful campaign by trainees.
Stringent privacy controls make it safe and confidential for trainees to take part. It is run by the Medical Board of Australia.
The 53.4 per cent 2024 response rate has strengthened the national dataset. Use it from December to guide change and inform your plans.
The MTS is always a team...
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Fresh lens exposes variations in experience of medical training across genders
Australia’s doctors in training report differences in their experience of medical training based on their gender, according to results of the 2023 Medical Training Survey.
The Medical Training Survey data shows variations in doctors’ access to research, the quality of orientation and payment for overtime between trainees, according to gender.
While serious concerns about the culture of medicine were raised by doctors in training of all genders, non-binary trainees reported the least-safe workplace.
Results of the 2023 Medical Training Survey were published in December 2023. Today, the Medical Board of Australia published a further breakdown of the 2023 MTS results, detailing experiences by gender of medical trainees.
Five years of MTS data are published in searchable form on the Medical Training Survey website, enabling comparisons across specialties, jurisdictions and gender.
Of the more than 23,000 doctors in training who participated in the 2023 Medical Training Survey, 18,000 participants answered the question about their gender. Of...
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2023 Medical Training Survey results now available!
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