Medical student statistics: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for the number of Scottish students graduated in Scotland in medicine and dentistry between 2014 and 2019.

I would also like figures for how many of these graduates continued to practice full time in Scotland over the five years immediately following their graduation.

Response

I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested.

1. The answer to your first question is; Scottish domiciled graduates from Scottish universities by subject classification:

Subject Classification	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19
Pre-clinical medicine	70	70	75	60	75	75
Pre-clinical dentistry	0	0	10	10	10	15
Clinical medicine	885	830	770	825	765	785
Clinical dentistry	145	115	115	140	125	95
Others in medicine & dentistry	25	35	30	65	70	95
Medicine & dentistry not elsewhere classified	30	35	20	30	25	30
Total	1,160	1,080	1,030	1,130	1,070	1,090

Source: HESA Student data, secondary analysis

Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5

All levels of study (i.e. post and undergraduate)

Based on full-person equivalent.

Where xjacs01 = ‘Medicine and Dentistry’

2. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have the information as to how many graduates continued to practice full time in Scotland over the five years immediately following their graduation.

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