Are junior doctors an "untapped resource" in quality improvement?
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BMJ Careers referred to a study in BMJ Quality & Safety on how a lot of junior doctors often have ideas on how to improve their workplace, or have innovatives ideas but rarely have their ideas imp
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Are junior doctors an "untapped resource" in quality improvement?
posted at 8/2/2012 4:39 PM GMT
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BMJ Careers referred to a study in BMJ Quality & Safety on how a lot of junior doctors often have ideas on how to improve their workplace, or have innovatives ideas but rarely have their ideas implemented. http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/view-article.html?id=20006483 From the BMJ Careers news piece: "A total of 91.2% of respondents said that they had ideas to improve services, but only 10.7% reported having had their ideas implemented. Nearly half (43.8%) felt unsure about how to get an idea implemented or had tried but failed to get their suggestion put in place. Most respondents reported that they did not feel valued by managers (83.3%), their organisation’s chief executive (77.8%), their employing organisation (77.3%), or the NHS as a whole (79.3%). However, trainees largely felt valued by consultants (62.8%) and non-consultant colleagues (75.5%)."
Should junior doctors' ideas be listened to more seriously? They are seeing things with fresh eyes and might have valuable ideas? Or is there simply not enough time to flesh out these ideas when you are a junior doctor? Have you had ideas about improving the quality of the service in the past? Were you listened to? Or were you ignored? Should there be more of a culture of encouraging junior doctors to contribute quality improvement ideas? |
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Re: Are junior doctors an "untapped resource" in quality improvement?
posted at 8/2/2012 6:24 PM GMT
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Input is important from all. Definitely junior doctors who bear on their shoulders the system on daily basis. Yes, they can have very good ideas about improving their workplace. And it is important to hear their ideas. If possible, such ideas or parts of ideas should be implemented. It is a senoirs' duty to see through if the idea would be implementable, but beware of stagnation and conservatism. Sometimes seniors can object to new ideas due to such views. My point of view is to be open to new ideas, be it of junior doctors, seniors, senior and junior nurses, technical staff, administrative staff, maintainance workers, etc., as long as they don't harm patients' health, privacy and are in line with law.
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Re: Are junior doctors an "untapped resource" in quality improvement?
posted at 8/2/2012 8:26 PM GMT
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There has been some previous discussion about this paper on doc2doc previoulsy |
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Re: Are junior doctors an "untapped resource" in quality improvement?
posted at 12/5/2012 12:58 AM BST
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Definitely, we will find a lots of talent in the new younger generation! The apparently junior doctors are surely an unlimited & till untapped resource in healthcare quality improvement. |
