Chapter 1. The background Chapter 2. The study Chapter 3. Career choice 4. Career progress: intercalated degrees 5. Career progress: postgraduate examinations Chapter 6. Career progress: internal migration: who goes where? Chapter 7. Career progress: international movement Chapter 8. Career progress: employment status of doctors 9. Women doctors 10. Individual specialities - i. medicine Chapter 11. Individual specialities - ii. surgery Chapter 12. Individual specialities - iii. psychiatry Chapter 13. Individual specialities - iv. anaesthetics Chapter 14. Individual specialities - v. general practice Chapter 15. Comments and opinions