Published in Future Hospital Journal
Doctors in training have the potential to make important contributions to improving healthcare services, at the same time as developing their own skills and knowledge about quality improvement (QI). However, meaningful improvements in healthcare quality and useful educational experiences for trainees are unlikely to occur unless employers and train...
Published in Future Hospital Journal
The face of medical training has transformed over the last two decades. This has impacted education and training, work ethic and pride within the profession. There are serious concerns that rigid working hours, shift systems, erosion of team-working (with all of the implications this carries for the essential ‘apprenticeship’ of postgraduate medica...
Published in Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -)
BackgroundA positive learning environment in which postgraduate doctors are supported, supervised and nurtured, is likely to lead to enhanced professional satisfaction and improved patient care.AimsThe aims of the current study were to use the PHEEM inventory to determine the aspects of their current learning environment which junior doctors rate m...
Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundIdentifying factors that improve job satisfaction of new doctors and ease the difficult transition from student to doctor is of great interest to public health agencies. Studies to date have focused primarily on the value of changes to medical school curricula and induction processes in this regard, but have overlooked the extent to which...
Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundOnline information resources function dually as important learning tools and sources of the latest evidence-based recommendations for junior medical officers (JMOs). However, little is currently known about how JMOs utilise this information when providing care for their patients. This study aimed to examine the usage and experience of onl...
Published in Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -)
BackgroundIncreasing demand exists for blended approaches to the development of professionalism. Trainees of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland participated in an online patient safety programme.AimsStudy aims were: (1) to determine whether the programme improved junior doctors’ knowledge, attitudes and skills relating to error reporting, o...
Published in Journal of Business Ethics
The purpose of this paper is to examine the outcomes arising from ideologically driven health reforms, which confronted an enduring socialized model of public health care in New Zealand. The primary focus is on the narratives arising from the unprecedented strike action of junior doctors, symbolic of industrial unrest in the public health sector. A...
Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundClinical practice guidelines (CPGs) aim to improve patient care, but their use remains variable. We explored attitudes that influence CPG use amongst newly qualified doctors.MethodsA self-completed, anonymous questionnaire was sent to all Foundation Doctors in England and Wales between December 2012 and May 2013. We included questions des...
Published in International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
Background Junior doctors commonly prescribe inhaled medication for patients admitted to hospitals, and this may be a potential source of prescription error. Objective To determine the potential type, frequency and cost of prescription errors for inhaled medication, and ascertain if a simple educational intervention can improve junior doctors’ know...
Published in International journal of medical informatics
These results indicate that a semi-structured assessment template significantly improves the quality of MSE recording by junior doctors within EHRs. Future work should focus on whether such improvements translate into better patient outcomes and have the ability to improve the quality of information available on EHRs to researchers.
