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A new tool to evaluate postgraduate training posts: the Job Evaluation Survey Tool (JEST)
BACKGROUND: Three reports in 2013 about healthcare and patient safety in the UK, namely Berwick, Francis and Keogh have highlighted the need for junior doctors’ views about their training experience to be heard. In the UK, the General Medical Council (GMC) quality assures medical training programmes...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4200137/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25277827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-210 |
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author | Wall, David Goodyear, Helen Singh, Baldev Whitehouse, Andrew Hughes, Elizabeth Howes, Jonathan |
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description | BACKGROUND: Three reports in 2013 about healthcare and patient safety in the UK, namely Berwick, Francis and Keogh have highlighted the need for junior doctors’ views about their training experience to be heard. In the UK, the General Medical Council (GMC) quality assures medical training programmes and requires postgraduate deaneries to undertake quality management and monitoring of all training posts in their area. The aim of this study was to develop a simple trainee questionnaire for evaluation of postgraduate training posts based on the GMC, UK standards and to look at the reliability and validity including comparison with a well-established and internationally validated tool, the Postgraduate Hospital Educational Environment Measure (PHEEM). METHODS: The Job Evaluation Survey Tool (JEST), a fifteen item job evaluation questionnaire was drawn up in 2006, piloted with Foundation doctors (2007), field tested with specialist paediatric registrars (2008) and used over a three year period (2008–11) by Foundation Doctors. Statistical analyses including descriptives, reliability, correlation and factor analysis were undertaken and JEST compared with PHEEM. RESULTS: The JEST had a reliability of 0.91 in the pilot study of 76 Foundation doctors, 0.88 in field testing of 173 Paediatric specialist registrars and 0.91 in three years of general use in foundation training with 3367 doctors completing JEST. Correlation of JEST with PHEEM was 0.80 (p < 0.001). Factor analysis showed two factors, a teaching factor and a social and lifestyle one. CONCLUSION: The JEST has proved to be a simple, valid and reliable evaluation tool in the monitoring and evaluation of postgraduate hospital training posts. |
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spelling | pubmed-42001372014-10-18 A new tool to evaluate postgraduate training posts: the Job Evaluation Survey Tool (JEST) Wall, David Goodyear, Helen Singh, Baldev Whitehouse, Andrew Hughes, Elizabeth Howes, Jonathan BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: Three reports in 2013 about healthcare and patient safety in the UK, namely Berwick, Francis and Keogh have highlighted the need for junior doctors’ views about their training experience to be heard. In the UK, the General Medical Council (GMC) quality assures medical training programmes and requires postgraduate deaneries to undertake quality management and monitoring of all training posts in their area. The aim of this study was to develop a simple trainee questionnaire for evaluation of postgraduate training posts based on the GMC, UK standards and to look at the reliability and validity including comparison with a well-established and internationally validated tool, the Postgraduate Hospital Educational Environment Measure (PHEEM). METHODS: The Job Evaluation Survey Tool (JEST), a fifteen item job evaluation questionnaire was drawn up in 2006, piloted with Foundation doctors (2007), field tested with specialist paediatric registrars (2008) and used over a three year period (2008–11) by Foundation Doctors. Statistical analyses including descriptives, reliability, correlation and factor analysis were undertaken and JEST compared with PHEEM. RESULTS: The JEST had a reliability of 0.91 in the pilot study of 76 Foundation doctors, 0.88 in field testing of 173 Paediatric specialist registrars and 0.91 in three years of general use in foundation training with 3367 doctors completing JEST. Correlation of JEST with PHEEM was 0.80 (p < 0.001). Factor analysis showed two factors, a teaching factor and a social and lifestyle one. CONCLUSION: The JEST has proved to be a simple, valid and reliable evaluation tool in the monitoring and evaluation of postgraduate hospital training posts. BioMed Central 2014-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4200137/ /pubmed/25277827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-210 Text en © Wall et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. 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 credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wall, David Goodyear, Helen Singh, Baldev Whitehouse, Andrew Hughes, Elizabeth Howes, Jonathan A new tool to evaluate postgraduate training posts: the Job Evaluation Survey Tool (JEST) |
title | A new tool to evaluate postgraduate training posts: the Job Evaluation Survey Tool (JEST) |
title_full | A new tool to evaluate postgraduate training posts: the Job Evaluation Survey Tool (JEST) |
title_fullStr | A new tool to evaluate postgraduate training posts: the Job Evaluation Survey Tool (JEST) |
title_full_unstemmed | A new tool to evaluate postgraduate training posts: the Job Evaluation Survey Tool (JEST) |
title_short | A new tool to evaluate postgraduate training posts: the Job Evaluation Survey Tool (JEST) |
title_sort | new tool to evaluate postgraduate training posts: the job evaluation survey tool (jest) |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4200137/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25277827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-210 |
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