Radiation Awareness amongst Junior Doctors

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Developing a Platform for Learning from Mistakes: changing the culture of patient safety amongst junior doctors

Junior doctors commonly make mistakes which may compromise patient safety. Despite the recent push by the NHS to encourage a "no blame" culture, mistakes are still viewed as shameful, embarrassing and demoralising events. The current model for learning from mistakes means that junior doctors only learn from their own errors. A survey was designed by the author for all the Foundation Year 1 doct...

Understanding barriers to delirium care: a multicentre survey of knowledge and attitudes amongst UK junior doctors.

BACKGROUND delirium is under-diagnosed and under-treated in comparison to other common and serious acute disorders. The reasons for this are unclear. OBJECTIVE we conducted a multicentre survey of knowledge of and attitudes to delirium in trainee general physicians. DESIGN questionnaire-based survey in 34 acute hospitals in the UK. METHODS we developed a questionnaire designed to test kno...

Pragmatic message to junior doctors.

Although several studies described the experience of doctors in their first postgraduate years, few shed the light on the ethical issues encountered by them. These doctors face a broad range of 'everyday' ethical challenges, from breach of confidentiality to truth-telling or improper informed consent. The daily ethical issues faced by junior doctors are not as dramatic as the major issues learn...

Electrocardiograph interpretation by junior doctors.

The object of this study was to assess the ability of junior doctors in the accident and emergency department to detect electrocardiographic (ECG) abnormalities. The ECG's performed in this department were monitored over a 4 week period. The initial diagnosis by the accident and emergency doctor was compared with the report from the cardiologist on 126 ECG's which showed abnormalities. The erro...