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The influence of the cultural climate of the training environment on physicians' self-perception of competence and preparedness for practice

BACKGROUND: In current supervisory practice, the learning environment in which the training of specialist registrars (SpRs) takes place is important. Examples of such learning environments are the hospital settings and/or geographical locations where training occurs. Our objective was to investigate...

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Autores principales: Busari, Jamiu O, Verhagen, Eduard AA, Muskiet, Fred D
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19025586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-8-51
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author Busari, Jamiu O
Verhagen, Eduard AA
Muskiet, Fred D
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description BACKGROUND: In current supervisory practice, the learning environment in which the training of specialist registrars (SpRs) takes place is important. Examples of such learning environments are the hospital settings and/or geographical locations where training occurs. Our objective was to investigate whether the cultural climate of different learning environments influences physicians' perceived level of competence and preparedness for practice. METHODS: An electronic questionnaire was sent to an equal group of paediatricians who had trained in clinical settings located in Europe and the Caribbean. 30 items (Likert scale 1–4 = totally disagree-totally agree) were used to measure the level of preparedness of the respondents in 7 physician competencies. RESULTS: 42 participants were included for analysis. The distribution of participants in both groups was comparable. The overall perception of preparedness in the Caribbean group was 2.93 (SD = 0.47) and 2.86 (SD = 0.72) in the European group. The European group felt less prepared in the competency as manager 1.81 (SD = 1.06) compared to their Caribbean counterparts 2.72 (SD = 0.66). The difference was significant (p = 0.006). CONCLUSION: The training in the different environments was perceived as adequate and comparable in effect. The learning environment's cultural climate appeared to influence the physician's perception of their competencies and preparedness for clinical practice.
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spelling pubmed-25967842008-12-06 The influence of the cultural climate of the training environment on physicians' self-perception of competence and preparedness for practice Busari, Jamiu O Verhagen, Eduard AA Muskiet, Fred D BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: In current supervisory practice, the learning environment in which the training of specialist registrars (SpRs) takes place is important. Examples of such learning environments are the hospital settings and/or geographical locations where training occurs. Our objective was to investigate whether the cultural climate of different learning environments influences physicians' perceived level of competence and preparedness for practice. METHODS: An electronic questionnaire was sent to an equal group of paediatricians who had trained in clinical settings located in Europe and the Caribbean. 30 items (Likert scale 1–4 = totally disagree-totally agree) were used to measure the level of preparedness of the respondents in 7 physician competencies. RESULTS: 42 participants were included for analysis. The distribution of participants in both groups was comparable. The overall perception of preparedness in the Caribbean group was 2.93 (SD = 0.47) and 2.86 (SD = 0.72) in the European group. The European group felt less prepared in the competency as manager 1.81 (SD = 1.06) compared to their Caribbean counterparts 2.72 (SD = 0.66). The difference was significant (p = 0.006). CONCLUSION: The training in the different environments was perceived as adequate and comparable in effect. The learning environment's cultural climate appeared to influence the physician's perception of their competencies and preparedness for clinical practice. BioMed Central 2008-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2596784/ /pubmed/19025586 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-8-51 Text en Copyright © 2008 Busari et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short The influence of the cultural climate of the training environment on physicians' self-perception of competence and preparedness for practice
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19025586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-8-51
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