Integrating parental leave into specialist training: Experience of trainees and recently graduated RANZCOG fellows

Abstract

Objectives: To ascertain the views of trainees and recently graduated Fellows I of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on their experiences of taking parental leave during specialist training. Design: An anonymous online survey, conducted over a 1-month period from 16 August 2012 to 14 September 2012, of participants' experiences of taking I parental leave and of the effects of parental leave taken by trainee colleagues on participants' own training. Setting and participants: All trainees undertaking training for the Fellowship of the College, and all Fellows who had graduated in the past 6 years were invited to take part. Of the total 1051 invite..