Abstract
The Junior Trainees Group (JTG) of the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons (BAOMS) and the JTG Annual Conference aim to support pre-registrar trainees
interested in OMFS. The theme of the 2018 conference, “Research and Innovation” was
disseminated through a diversity of expert speakers and interactive workshops. This
paper provides an overview of the conference and analysis of the delegates’ feedback
to show how it represented their interests and influenced their decisions to pursue
OMFS. Online questionnaires assessed demographics and the impact of the conference
on numerous aspects of the decisions made about careers by delegates at different
levels of training. A Kruskal Wallis test with post-hoc pairwise comparisons was done
to assess the significance of differences between groups. A total of 135 delegates
completed the questionnaires (13% dual-qualified; 13% second-degree medics; 18% second-degree
dentists; 6% singly-qualified medics; 41% singly-qualified dentists; 5% first-degree
medics; and 4% first-degree dentists), and 141 submitted abstracts of which 32 poster
and 12 oral presentations were accepted. A total of 79/135 (59%) were members of the
BAOMS. Word-of-mouth was the commonest way by which delegates became aware of the
conference. As the stage of training advanced, they agreed more that it represented
their training level and influenced them to pursue research and attend the BAOMS 2018
conference. The JTG conference is the only national meeting for pre-registrar trainees,
and this year there were record numbers of delegates and abstracts. As the JTG grows,
we continue to assist juniors to pursue their involvement in OMFS units and to participate
in research and collaborative projects. Our goals are to expand as a national platform
to represent junior trainees who are interested in OMFS, and to support them as they
progress towards registrar training.
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Published online: September 21, 2019
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© 2019 The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.