UK undergraduate aspirations and attitudes survey: do we have a perception problem in clinical radiology?

•Understand medical students' career choices, with a particular focus on radiology.•Survey of undergraduate medical students at a large UK Medical school.•Radiology ranked 10th out of 14 specialties for long-term career choice.•Radiology perceived as being ‘low status’, but enabling a good work-life balance.•Medical students appeared incompletely aware of the range of radiologists' work.