The qualifiers of 2009 were Foundation Year 1 doctors (doctors in their first year after graduation); the qualifiers of 2005 were mainly specialty registrars (middle-grade doctors in specialty training posts, 5 years after graduation); and the qualifiers of 1993 were mainly consultants and general practitioners (GPs), doctors 17 years after qualification who have completed specialist training.
■ In the men's semifinals in the Kremlin Cup, top-seeded Richard Gasquet beat Ivo Karlovic of Croatia, 6-4, 7-5, and the qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan upset the defending champion, Andreas Seppi of Italy, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4.
Fifth-seeded Jelena Dokic of Yugoslavia overcame a slow start to beat Yelena Bovina of Russia, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, and the qualifier Eva Dyrberg of Denmark upset 11th-seeded Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria, 6-2, 6-3.
Eighth-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain lost by 7-6 (2), 6-4 to unseeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia, and the qualifier Nicolas Escude of France defeated Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden, 6-0, 6-4.
The percentage of doctors in year three who agreed that they had been well prepared actually decreased in the successive cohorts: it was 48.9%95%5% CI: 47.1, 50.7) for those who qualified in 1999/2000, 38.0% (36.0, 40.0) for the qualifiers of 2002 and 28.0% (26.3, 29.7) for the qualifiers of 2005 (Table 2).
He expresses disapproval of The Dude's use of profanity and his laziness, and adds the qualifier "parts of it anyway" when speaking to the camera commenting that he enjoyed the film.
In 2010 and early 2011 we undertook national multipurpose studies of the qualifiers of 1993, 2005 and 2009.
There was a shift over time in the highest categories of enjoyment: 44% of doctors in the 1999 and 2000 cohorts scored 8, 9 or 10, as did 54% of the qualifiers of 2008 and 2009.
The greatest increase in satisfaction levels was between the qualifiers of 1999/2000 and those of 2002, with a further noteworthy increase between the 2005s and the 2008/2009s.
Accordingly, for our next scheduled surveys, which were of the qualifiers of 1999 and 2000, undertaken in 2012, we added a specific section on views about the EWTD, inviting all doctors to reply to it.
