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Objective  To explore junior medical students' notions of a ‘good doctor’, given their ideas about: success in Year 1, house jobs, and their attraction to medicine.

Methods  Study participants were junior medical students (1999 and 2001 entry cohorts studied thrice and twice, respectively) and prospective students of the University of Liverpool's 5‐year, problem‐based, community‐orientated curriculum. Data collection and analysis used a ‘mixed methods’ approach, cross‐sectional design, and brief questionnaire surveys. In an index survey, open questions (analysed inductively) explored house jobs and Year 1 success. They also generated ‘good doctor’ themes, which a second survey confirmed and 3 surveys ranked. A sixth survey explored motivation for choosing medicine (open question). Good doctor rankings were analysed by postcode for prospective medical students classified as school‐leaver residents of …