Junior doctor identity crises

Identity crises and strong compactness

Improving junior doctor handover between jobs

Patient safety is one of the most important issues in healthcare. In recent years there has been much focus on "Black Wednesday"; the day that Foundation doctors start their first jobs. Great efforts have been made to ensure that patient safety on this day has improved, with the main example being that newly qualified doctors now use some of their free time between medical school and starting t...

How to succeed as a junior doctor.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) organised an inaugural 1-day conference, the aim of which was to look into some of the key issues that junior doctors need to address when beginning their careers. The target audience was medical students but a few foundation doctors were also in attendance. The conference also helped to increase RCP engagement with medical students and foundation doctors. ...

What next for the junior doctor contract?

After the health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors, NHS Employers has said that the changes would be phased in over 12 months from August 2016. 2 The BMA’s Junior Doctors Committee will discuss its next moves at a meeting on 20 February. Johann Malawana, chair of the committee, has said that feedback from meetings with junior doctors would “shape the ‘w...

Ethics, law, and the junior doctor.

For teachers of medical ethics and law, teaching junior doctors is particularly interesting for a number of reasons. First, it reveals starkly the variability in ethical knowledge among doctors. One junior doctor may see no ethical or legal issue in a presented case while another will immediately identify three or four such problems. Second, once the issues are recognised, most junior doctors a...