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ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2019

Experience of the impact of physician associates on -postgraduate medical training: A mixed methods -exploratory study .

Sam Roberts, Sarah Howarth, Helen Millott, Laura Stroud

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Article in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Doctors', Patients' and Physician Associates' Perceptions of the Physician Associate Role in the Emergency Department.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024
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  2. Physician associates advance patient safety.Future healthcare journal · 2021
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  5. All change, all change.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sam RobertsLeeds Institute of Health Sciences, Leeds, UK sam.roberts8@nhs.net.
Sarah HowarthLeeds Institute of Medical Education, Leeds, UK.
Helen MillottLeeds Institute of Medical Education, Leeds, UK.
Laura StroudLeeds Institute of Health Sciences, Leeds, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The introduction of new professional roles to the multidisciplinary team has been heralded as a way to facilitate medical education in the face of increasing service pressures. However, concerns have been raised that the training of new healthcare professionals will dilute the availability of learning opportunities, thereby detracting from postgraduate medical education. As part of a mixed methods exploratory study, the experienced impact of newly qualified physician associates on medical training was explored. Within 6 months of newly qualified physician associates being introduced, half of junior doctors reported no overall impact on their training and a third felt that their training was enhanced by the presence of physician associates. A minority of trainees experienced dilution of training opportunities. The findings support the notion that new healthcare professionals do not detract from medical training and suggest that roles such as the physician associate have potential to enhance postgraduate medical education.

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Focus GroupsHospitalsHumansInterviews as TopicMedical Staff, HospitalOrganizational CulturePhysiciansSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited KingdomWorkplacephysician associatepostgraduate medical educationTraining

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PMID30651237
PMCPMC6399627

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