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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; static reports, high-level snapshots and via the interactive data dashboard where you can create your own tailored reports.
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 2025 MTS has now closed.
NEWS
MTS data giving trainees choices in a buyer’s market
“We’re listening.”
That’s the headline message to doctors in training from the new Chair of the Medical Training Survey (MTS), Dr Brooke Sheldon.
Also Chair of the Tasmanian Board of the Medical Board of Australia, Dr Sheldon says MTS results are already being applied to positive affect, with stakeholders harnessing its invaluable insights.
“Employers and educators know it’s a buyer’s market. They are very responsive to trainee feedback and are using MTS data as a quality assurance tool to identify areas for improvement,” she said.
‘New medical graduates are using MTS data to find out where training is good and where culture is supportive. MTS data provides the evidence base informing their training choices,” she said.
Dr Sheldon plans to draw on her background in medical education, experience in primary care and passion for driving positive change in the culture of medicine in her work with the MTS.
‘I’m really passionate about medical culture, and...
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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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2024 Medical Training Survey results now available!
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