- Title
- Transitions in general practice training: quantifying epidemiological variation in trainees’ experiences and clinical behaviours
- Creator
- Tran, Michael; Wearne, Susan; Magin, Parker; Tapley, Amanda; Fielding, Alison; Davey, Andrew; van Driel, Mieke; Holliday, Elizabeth; Ball, Jean; FitzGerald, Kristen; Spike, Neil
- Relation
- BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION Vol. 22, Issue 1, no. 124
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03178-0
- Publisher
- BMC Medical Education
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Background: General Practice training in Australia is delivered through the apprenticeship model. General Practice supervisors support trainees transitioning from hospital-based work towards competent independent community-based practice. The timing and manner in which support should be provided is still not well understood. This study aimed to establish the variation in clinical and educational experiences and behaviours, and location, of general practice trainees’ consultations by stage of their vocational training. It was hypothesised that change is greater in earlier stages of training. Methods: A cross-sectional analysis of data (2010–2018) from the Registrar Clinical Encounters in Training (ReCEnT) study, an ongoing cohort study of Australian GP registrars’ in-consultation clinical and educational experience and behaviours. Multinomial logistic regression assessed the association of demographic, educational, and clinical factors in different stages of training. The outcome factor was the training term. Results: Two thousand four hundred sixteen registrars contributed data for 321,414 patient consultations. For several important variables (seeing patients with chronic disease; new patients; seeking in-consultation information or assistance; ordering pathology and imaging; and working in a small or regional practice), odds ratios were considerably greater for comparisons of Term 1 and 3, relative to comparisons of Term 2 and 3. Conclusion: Differences experienced in demographic, clinical and educational factors are significantly more pronounced earlier in registrars’ training. This finding has educational and training implications with respect to resource allocation, trainee supervision and curriculum design. Sociocultural learning theory enables an understanding of the impact of transitions on, and how to support, general practice trainees and supervisors.
- Subject
- education; medical; graduate; family practice; general practice; primary health care; SDG 4; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1465431
- Identifier
- uon:47268
- Identifier
- ISSN:1472-6920
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativeco mmons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
- Language
- eng
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