The study investigates the extent to which approaches to work, workplace climate, stress, burnout and satisfaction with medicine as a career, are predicted by measures of learning style and personality, measured 5-12 years earlier when the doctors were applicants to medical school or medical students. Results show that doctors’ approaches to work were predicted by study habits and learning styles, both at application to medical school and in the final year, just as their perception of their workplace climate and workload were predicted by approaches to work and by measures of stress, burnout and satisfaction with medicine. The study concluded that differences in approach to work and perceived workplace climate seem mainly to reflect stable, long-term individual differences in doctors themselves, reflected in measures of personality and learning style.