scholarly journals A Medical Article Publishing Club for Junior Doctors: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis

Cureus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samson O Oyibo ◽  
Seema O Brij
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Medical Article

scholarly journals Views of UK doctors in training on the timing of choosing a clinical specialty: quantitative and qualitative analysis of surveys 3 years after graduation

2018 ◽  
Vol 94 (1117) ◽  
pp. 621-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelly Lachish ◽  
Michael J Goldacre ◽  
Trevor William Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Specialist Training ◽  
Clinical Specialty ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Career Advice ◽  
Career Specialty

BackgroundWorkforce studies show a declining proportion of UK junior doctors proceeding directly to specialist training, with many taking career breaks. Doctors may be choosing to delay this important career decision.AimTo assess doctors’ views on the timing of choosing a clinical specialty.MethodsSurveys of two cohorts of UK-trained doctors 3 years after qualification, in 2011 and 2015.ResultsPresented with the statement ‘I had to choose my career specialty too soon after qualification’, 61% agreed (27% strongly) and 22% disagreed (3% strongly disagreed). Doctors least certain about their choice of specialty were most likely to agree (81%), compared with those who were more confident (72%) or were definite regarding their choice of long-term specialty (54%). Doctors not in higher specialist training were more likely to agree with this statement than those who were (72% vs 59%). Graduate medical school entrants (ie, those who had completed prior degrees) were less likely to agree than non-graduates (56% vs 62%). Qualitative analysis of free text comments identified three themes as reasons why doctors felt rushed into choosing their future career: insufficient exposure to a wide range of specialties; a desire for a greater breadth of experience of medicine in general; and inadequate career advice.ConclusionsMost UK-trained doctors feel rushed into choosing their long-term career specialty. Doctors find this difficult because they lack sufficient medical experience and adequate career advice to make sound choices. Workforce trainers and planners should enable greater flexibility in training pathways and should further improve existing career guidance.

scholarly journals A qualitative analysis of junior doctors’ journeys to preparedness in acute care

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Burridge ◽  
Thurkaa Shanmugalingam ◽  
Fatima Nawrozzadeh ◽  
Kathleen Leedham-Green ◽  
Amar Sharif
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Junior Doctors

Quantitative and qualitative analysis of exception reporting at a district general hospital

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Charlotte G Underwood ◽  
Qamrunnisa U Yunus ◽  
Alexander B Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Junior Doctor ◽  
District General Hospital ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Educational Issue ◽  
Common Response ◽  
Hours Of Work ◽  
Exception Reporting ◽  
Work Done

Background/aims Exception reporting is a function by which junior doctors report when their work has varied from expected. This study analysed the reporting at the authors' hospital. Methods The authors analysed 204 reports submitted across 12 months to investigate the nature and pattern of the exception reports. Results The majority of reports (86%) were for ‘hours and rest’, 5% for education and 9% for both. On average doctors reported an additional 1.32 hours of work per report. The most common response was time off in lieu, but 13% of reports were never responded to. Qualitative analysis showed the most common reasons for reporting were ‘work outside of rostered hours’, ‘workload’ and ‘staffing issues’. Over 10% of the reports discussed an educational issue. Conclusions The data were not specific and there was fewer than one report per junior doctor in the period analysed. It is therefore unlikely that the reports submitted represent the additional work done by junior doctors at the hospital. Guardians should investigate local attitudes to exception reporting and educate both seniors and juniors on the importance of submitting accurate exception reports.

scholarly journals Technology-Enhanced Consultations in Diabetes, Cancer, and Heart Failure: Protocol for the Qualitative Analysis of Remote Consultations (QuARC) Project (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara E Shaw ◽  
Deborah Cameron ◽  
Joseph Wherton ◽  
Lucas M Seuren ◽  
Shanti Vijayaraghavan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Remote Consultations ◽  
Roll Out

BACKGROUND Remote videoconsulting is promoted by policy makers as a way of delivering health care efficiently to an aging population with rising rates of chronic illness. As a radically new service model, it brings operational and interactional challenges in using digital technologies. In-depth research on this dynamic is needed before remote consultations are introduced more widely. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study will be to identify and analyze the communication strategies through which remote consultations are accomplished and to guide patients and clinicians to improve the communicative quality of remote consultations. METHODS In previous research, we collected and analyzed two separate datasets of remote consultations in a National Institute for Health Research–funded study of clinics in East London using Skype and a Wellcome Trust–funded study of specialist community heart failure teams in Oxford using Skype or FaceTime. The Qualitative Analysis of Remote Consultations (QuARC) study will combine datasets and undertake detailed interactional microanalysis of up to 40 remote consultations undertaken by senior and junior doctors and nurse specialists, including consultations with adults with diabetes, women who have diabetes during pregnancy, people consulting for postoperative cancer surgery and community-based patients having routine heart failure reviews along with up to 25 comparable face-to-face consultations. Drawing on established techniques (eg, conversation analysis), analysis will examine the contextual features in remote consultations (eg, restricted visual field) combined with close analysis of different modes of communication (eg, speech, gesture, and gaze). RESULTS Our findings will address the current gap in knowledge about how technology shapes the fine detail of communication in remote consultations. Alongside academic outputs, findings will inform the coproduction of information and guidance about communication strategies to support successful remote consultations. CONCLUSIONS Identifying the communication strategies through which remote consultations are accomplished and producing guidance for patients and clinicians about how to use this kind of technology successfully in consultations is an important and timely goal because roll out of remote consultations is planned across the National Health Service. REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER RR1-10.2196/10913

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