Questionnaire re MMC/MTAS

Please go to http://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/mjb14 for the latest questionnaire. This is an archived copy of the questionnaire from the 7th March 2007.

This information is being collected by the authors of the letter to the BMJ, 7th March. You will be asked at the end of the questionnaire for your permission(s) how we might use it.

1. Are you medical?
2. If medical, what level?
3. Do you belong to a College?
4. Are you a Member or a Fellow?
5. Surname
6. Forename
7. Initial
8. D.O.B. (optional)
9. GMC number (optional)
Please note we may not be able to use entries without one or both of D.O.B. and GMC number, if we are required to demonstrate authenticity of submissions.
10. Email (optional)
11. Current Post e.g. Consultant Physician at St. Excellent Hospital, Wondertown
12. Have you applied for a post under MTAS in the current round?
13. How many specialties did you apply for?
14. How many locations did you apply to?
15. How many interviews have you been offered?
16. Do you think that the current round of MTAS appointments should be aborted?
17. Do you think that the second round of MTAS appointments should be aborted?
18. Would you like appointments committees to resign?
19. Should appointments committees be asked to keep half the posts in each specialty vacant in round 1?
20. Do you support some change to the current system of training and appointments?
21. Do you think the current MMC is a basis for an improvement on the Calman system?
22. How well do you consider your Royal College to have looked after your interests?
23. How would you score the performance of the MMC leaders?
24. Would you call for resignation of the architects of MMC?
25. Other suggestions (optional, 100 words)
26. Your personal experience as an applicant or assessor (optional, 100 words)
27. Other suggested questions we might ask (optional, 100 words)
28. May we contact you if necessary for further information?
29. Are you willing for your answers to be used anonymously in providing summative information to support changes?
30. Are you willing for your name to be appended electronically to a petition limited to those requests which you have answered 'Yes'? (questions 16-21 and 24)
Thank you for completing this form.