ArticleEuropean burn journal2024
Working Conditions for Burns Resident Doctors-Better Now than Ever?
Article in European burn journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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backgroundThe work and life of a resident (or "junior") doctor has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. Descriptions of historic working conditions are usually anecdotal and tinted with nostalgia, but do today's burns and plastic surgery doctors feel working conditions have improved or declined over the last 50 years, and does this have an impact on recruitment and retention?
methodsAn interview was conducted with a retired surgeon who, in 1970, worked as a house surgeon (Year 2 doctor equivalent) in a burns unit for the pioneering burn surgeon Mr. Douglas MacGregor Jackson. This was coupled with a literature review to objectively assess working conditions in that period for doctors. The information generated from this produced a poster summarizing the key differences between these periods. This was presented to the current medical work force, and a survey was conducted to determine their preferences for working conditions.
resultsThe questionnaire was completed by 68 doctors of mixed grades and backgrounds. The majority of respondents (60%) would choose to work in today's burns centres. There was a significant difference between the mean age of respondents' preference of working conditions in 1970 (37 years) and those preferring today (31 years) (
conclusionsMultiple changes in the working conditions and the management of burns patients were identified. The majority of those who were asked consider today's working conditions to be better than those of the past. However, more senior clinicians tended to prefer the conditions of 1970 over the present day, suggesting a generational shift in opinion.
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