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Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus

Globally, the call for Family-Friendly (FF) workplaces is loud and clear. However, this call is inaudible in medical workplaces, despite both well-established benefits of FF workplaces across businesses and well-known effects of work–family conflict on the well-being and practice of doctors. We aime...

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Autores principales: Peisah, Carmelle, Sheppard, Adrianna, Benbow, Susan Mary, Loughran-Fowlds, Alison, Grayson, Susan, Gunton, Jenny E., Kataria, Anuradha, Lai, Rosalyn, Lele, Kiran, Quadrio, Carolyn, Wright, Danette, McLean, Loyola
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10298253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37372796
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11121679
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author Peisah, Carmelle
Sheppard, Adrianna
Benbow, Susan Mary
Loughran-Fowlds, Alison
Grayson, Susan
Gunton, Jenny E.
Kataria, Anuradha
Lai, Rosalyn
Lele, Kiran
Quadrio, Carolyn
Wright, Danette
McLean, Loyola
author_facet Peisah, Carmelle
Sheppard, Adrianna
Benbow, Susan Mary
Loughran-Fowlds, Alison
Grayson, Susan
Gunton, Jenny E.
Kataria, Anuradha
Lai, Rosalyn
Lele, Kiran
Quadrio, Carolyn
Wright, Danette
McLean, Loyola
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description Globally, the call for Family-Friendly (FF) workplaces is loud and clear. However, this call is inaudible in medical workplaces, despite both well-established benefits of FF workplaces across businesses and well-known effects of work–family conflict on the well-being and practice of doctors. We aimed to use the Delphi consensus methodology to: (i) operationalise the Family-Friendly medical workplace and (ii) develop a Family-Friendly Self-Audit tool for medical workplaces. The expert medical Delphi panel was deliberatively recruited to capture a breadth of professional, personal, and academic expertise, diversity of age (35–81), life stage, family contexts and lived experience of dual commitments to work and family, and diversity of work settings and positions. Results reflected the inclusive and dynamic nature of the doctor’s family and the need to adopt a family life cycle approach to FF medical workplaces. Key processes for implementation include holding firms to zero discrimination; flexibility and openness to dialogue and feedback; and a mutual commitment between the doctor and the department lead to best meet the doctor’s individualised needs while still ensuring optimal patient care and team support and cohesion. We hypothesise that the Department Head may be the key to implementation but recognise the workforce constraints to realising these aspirational systemic shifts. It is time we acknowledge that doctors have families, to narrow the gap between identifying as a partner, mother, father, daughter, son, grandparent, and identifying as a doctor. We affirm the right to be both good doctors and good family members.
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spelling pubmed-102982532023-06-28 Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus Peisah, Carmelle Sheppard, Adrianna Benbow, Susan Mary Loughran-Fowlds, Alison Grayson, Susan Gunton, Jenny E. Kataria, Anuradha Lai, Rosalyn Lele, Kiran Quadrio, Carolyn Wright, Danette McLean, Loyola Healthcare (Basel) Article Globally, the call for Family-Friendly (FF) workplaces is loud and clear. However, this call is inaudible in medical workplaces, despite both well-established benefits of FF workplaces across businesses and well-known effects of work–family conflict on the well-being and practice of doctors. We aimed to use the Delphi consensus methodology to: (i) operationalise the Family-Friendly medical workplace and (ii) develop a Family-Friendly Self-Audit tool for medical workplaces. The expert medical Delphi panel was deliberatively recruited to capture a breadth of professional, personal, and academic expertise, diversity of age (35–81), life stage, family contexts and lived experience of dual commitments to work and family, and diversity of work settings and positions. Results reflected the inclusive and dynamic nature of the doctor’s family and the need to adopt a family life cycle approach to FF medical workplaces. Key processes for implementation include holding firms to zero discrimination; flexibility and openness to dialogue and feedback; and a mutual commitment between the doctor and the department lead to best meet the doctor’s individualised needs while still ensuring optimal patient care and team support and cohesion. We hypothesise that the Department Head may be the key to implementation but recognise the workforce constraints to realising these aspirational systemic shifts. It is time we acknowledge that doctors have families, to narrow the gap between identifying as a partner, mother, father, daughter, son, grandparent, and identifying as a doctor. We affirm the right to be both good doctors and good family members. MDPI 2023-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10298253/ /pubmed/37372796 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11121679 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Lai, Rosalyn
Lele, Kiran
Quadrio, Carolyn
Wright, Danette
McLean, Loyola
Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus
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title_full Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus
title_fullStr Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus
title_full_unstemmed Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus
title_short Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus
title_sort operationalising the family-friendly medical workplace and the development of fam-med, a family-friendly self-audit tool for medical systems: a delphi consensus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10298253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37372796
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11121679
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