Focusing on Preparing Newly-qualified Doctors for Their On-calls Using Peer-assisted Learning

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10.2991/assehr.k.210930.023How to use a DOI?

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“Peer-assisted learning”

Abstract

Teaching for newly-qualified Foundation Year 1 (FY1) doctors at our hospital has traditionally been delivered by senior clinicians. They have tended to focus on specialised and advanced areas of their fields, rather than the more basic pathologies encountered by a junior doctor on-call. This was resulting in reduced confidence amongst FY1 doctors. To solve this problem, we created a teaching course using a peer-assisted learning (PAL) approach. It was delivered by fellow trainees who better understood the learning needs of FY1 doctors. We compared the cohort of newly-qualified doctors that received the course (2020/21) with the preceding cohort who did not receive the course (2019/20). The 2020/21 cohort reported a significant increase in confidence in dealing with different specialties on-call compared to the 2019/20 cohort (p<0.0001). As a result of our project, our hospital has incorporated this course into core-teaching for FY1 doctors at the beginning of every year.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Faheem Malik
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/01
TI  - Focusing on Preparing Newly-qualified Doctors for Their On-calls Using Peer-assisted Learning
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Education (ICME 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 120
EP  - 124
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210930.023
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210930.023
ID  - Malik2021
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