ArticleFuture healthcare journal2019
Raising concerns in the current NHS climate: a qualitative study exploring junior doctors' attitudes to training and teaching.
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- Defining Speaking Up in the Healthcare System: a Systematic Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Pooled it
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- Factors affecting the UK junior doctor workforce retention crisis: an integrative review.BMJ open · 2022Review
- Learning to speak up and to learn differently.Future healthcare journal · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundHigh profile cases continue to demonstrate failures to raise concerns with detrimental effects on patient safety. This research sought to establish what educational support junior doctors needed to effectively raise clinical and professional concerns. STUDY
designA qualitative study with 16 participants taking part in three focus groups. The transcripts were thematically analysed.
resultsAll the data could be coded into four themes: past experiences of teaching; suggested teaching; reporting mechanisms and educational challenges. Most participants were dissatisfied with the teaching they had received on raising concerns. Current systems were thought to be good for raising patient safety issues but not for concerns about professional behaviour of healthcare staff.
conclusionsThere is a need for improved education to tackle the way this is taught in postgraduate curricula. Frequent rotations and a lack of meaningful relationships left junior doctors feeling less invested in improving organisational culture. Junior doctors are apprehensive about raising concerns because of personal risk to their career trajectory.
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