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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021
To explore the level of supervision between training and non-training posts at LSCFT.
• Supervision is defined as ‘provision of guidance and feedback on matters of personal, professional and educational development in the context of a trainees' experience of providing safe and appropriate patient care’.
• Along with the trainees, doctors working in non-training posts such as staff grade, specialty doctors, trust grade doctors (TJD)and MTI (Medical training initiative) doctors form an integral part of patient care in the NHS.
• A mixed method approach was adopted with both qualitative and quantitative data collected simultaneously in the form of an online questionnaire.
• An anonymous online questionnaire was sent to junior doctors currently in training and non-training posts at LSCFT in 2019 using Meridian software.
1- Quantitative Data: - Participants included were doctors in training post such as Foundation Doctors (5), Psychiatry Core Trainees (6), GP STs (2) and doctors in non-training post such as TJD (4), Specialty Doctors (2) and MTI doctors (4). Based on the Meridian score, 84% of doctors were satisfied with the supervision. It was found that 72% of doctors received weekly supervisions, 10% monthly (1 TJD, 1 Foundation trainee) and16% bi-monthly (1 MTI, 1 SAS, 2 CTs). The data suggested that there was no difference in the frequency of supervisions between training and non-training posts at LSCFT.
2- Qualitative Data: - The feedback was common as there was no major difference between training and non-training doctors.
• Positives – WPBAs, discussion on reflections, management of complex cases and medication, personal issues affecting work.
• Negatives – Limited discussion on QI, Audit, Research and Psychotherapy.
1. To prepare a checklist of contents to be discussed during supervision.
2. To prepare a timeline chart of supervision.
3. Preparing a ‘menu’ of QI projects that junior doctors can sign up to at the start of each post.
4. To formulate training packages available to support junior doctors with QI/Audits.
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