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First year doctors experience of work related wellbeing and implications for educational provision

Objectives: To explore factors which affect newly qualified doctors’ wellbeing and look at the implications for educational provision. METHODS: Data were collected by free association narrative interviews of nine Foundation doctors and analysed using a grounded theory approach. Two Foundation progra...

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Autor principal: Goodyear, Helen M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: IJME 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4207178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25341219
http://dx.doi.org/10.5116/ijme.5380.6ef1
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description Objectives: To explore factors which affect newly qualified doctors’ wellbeing and look at the implications for educational provision. METHODS: Data were collected by free association narrative interviews of nine Foundation doctors and analysed using a grounded theory approach. Two Foundation programme directors were interviewed to verify data validity. RESULTS: Two main themes emerged: newly qualified doctors’ wellbeing is affected by 1) personal experience and 2) work related factors. They start work feeling unprepared by medical school, work experience (“shadowing”) or induction programmes at the beginning of the post. Senior colleague support and feedback are much valued but often lacking with little discussion of critical incidents and difficult issues. Challenges include sick patients, prescribing, patient/relative communication and no consistent team structure. Working shift patterns affects personal and social life. Enjoyment and reward come from helping patients, feelings of making a difference or teaching medical students. CONCLUSIONS: Whilst becoming familiar with their roles, newly qualified doctors search for identity and build up resilience. The support given during this process affects their wellbeing including coping with day to day challenges, whether posts are experienced as rewarding and how work influences their personal and social lives.
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spelling pubmed-42071782014-10-23 First year doctors experience of work related wellbeing and implications for educational provision Goodyear, Helen M. Int J Med Educ Research Article Objectives: To explore factors which affect newly qualified doctors’ wellbeing and look at the implications for educational provision. METHODS: Data were collected by free association narrative interviews of nine Foundation doctors and analysed using a grounded theory approach. Two Foundation programme directors were interviewed to verify data validity. RESULTS: Two main themes emerged: newly qualified doctors’ wellbeing is affected by 1) personal experience and 2) work related factors. They start work feeling unprepared by medical school, work experience (“shadowing”) or induction programmes at the beginning of the post. Senior colleague support and feedback are much valued but often lacking with little discussion of critical incidents and difficult issues. Challenges include sick patients, prescribing, patient/relative communication and no consistent team structure. Working shift patterns affects personal and social life. Enjoyment and reward come from helping patients, feelings of making a difference or teaching medical students. CONCLUSIONS: Whilst becoming familiar with their roles, newly qualified doctors search for identity and build up resilience. The support given during this process affects their wellbeing including coping with day to day challenges, whether posts are experienced as rewarding and how work influences their personal and social lives. IJME 2014-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4207178/ /pubmed/25341219 http://dx.doi.org/10.5116/ijme.5380.6ef1 Text en Copyright: © 2014 Helen Goodyear http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use of work provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4207178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25341219
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