Background: GPs are particularly vulnerable to job burnout. Tailored prevention and intervention strategies are needed.
Aim: To investigate organisational, interpersonal, and individual factors contributing to exhaustion and disengagement at work among GPs.
Introduction: Clinical reasoning (CR) is a key competence for physicians and a major source of damaging medical errors. Many strategies have been explored to improve CR quality, most of them based on knowledge enhancement, cognitive debiasing and the use of analytical reasoning. If increasing knowledge and fostering analytical reasoning have shown some positive results, the impact of debiasing is however mixed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this two-stage research was to document the stressors and resources experienced by front-line professional groups at the heart of the health crisis due to COVID-19, as well as to bring out of a multidisciplinary reflection, a series of priority proposals for strengthening the care system. Our results highlighted great interprofessional similarities in terms of negative and positive experiences (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The COVID-19 health crisis has turned the entire health care system and its actors upside down. For interns in general practice (IMGs), it has changed the way they practice medicine on a daily basis, disrupted their training, and highlighted their social responsibility, a factor that predisposes them to practice general medicine.
Objective: To assess the impact of the health crisis on the anxiety and motivation for general practice of IMGs.
Background: Several European countries face a shortage of general practitioners (GPs), in part due to GP attrition. Most studies of GP attrition have focussed on why GPs decide to leave. Yet understanding why GPs decide to remain may also elicit potential interventions to reduce attrition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: This study described the professional activities of graduates of the Advanced Master of General Practice of the Belgian French-speaking universities from 1999 to 2013 and identified factors influencing their situation.
Methods: Between November 2014 and June 2015, all graduates were asked to complete a questionnaire concerning their professional activities. The first part of the analysis described the respondent's socio-demographic and professional characteristics.
Objectives: Published operating models about preventive health care and health promotion in primary care were sought with the aim of (1) compiling a functional inventory; and (2) to formulate working hypotheses for the improvement of clinical practice towards more efficiency and more equity.
Methods: Narrative literature review, using keywords related to the various prevention classes, health promotion, primary care, practice models and health care delivery. The diversity of models led to a multi-criteria analysis.