First, our survey covered only one year, and it is possible that attrition trends may vary over years.
Longitudinal studies may also be a way to explore recruitment and attrition trends, and how they may be associated with measures such as satisfaction and burnout, thus informing the issue of sustainability of caseload models.
Based upon contemporary numbers of general medical practitioners and specialists, and the growth and subsequent attrition trends of the current medical workforce, some estimates of future workforce numbers in the age groups typical of medical educators can be made.
To determine the rate and trend of attrition from a surgical residency programme and to identify the reasons for attrition.
We noted the same trend, with attrition of target retention as the sectioning progressed through a TMA block.
To add to the concern, annual program reports indicated an increasing trend of attrition from 24% in 2009 to 32% in 2011 (8).
To test the potential effect of attrition on the secular trend slope, results were re-analysed based on the assumption that non-participants in the early and the late parts of the study period reported considerably lower or higher levels of SRH than participants.
If nothing reverses trends of attrition, they warned, there won't be enough mentors in the United States to educate the next generation in how to transfer science to the clinic or to probe clinical experiences for new biology.
Extracts from the Australian Medicare database and Medical Labour Force Surveys are used to examine trends in attrition of general medical practitioners and specialists over the age of 45 years from the workforce and to predict their rate of retirement to 2025.
This would mean that in the space of a few months, the Afghan army reversed its nearly year-long trend of 25percentto30percentcent attrition rates and managed to increase the size of the force by 4,000 soldiers.
