What factors motivate junior doctors to engage as clinical tutors? A qualitative study.

Objectives: The study aimed to explore and identify factors motivating junior doctors to engage as long-term clinical tutors in undergraduate medical education.

Methods: In this qualitative study, twenty-seven participants were recruited among junior doctors attending preparatory tutor courses at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, and the Primary Healthcare system, West Sweden. They were asked to respond to open-ended questions and write a short account of their needs as clinical tutors for medical students.

Student-centred GP ambassadors: Perceptions of experienced clinical tutors in general practice undergraduate training.

Objective: To explore experienced general practitioner (GP) tutor perceptions of a skilled GP tutor of medical students.

Design: Interview study based on focus groups.

Setting: Twenty GPs experienced in tutoring medical students at primary health care centres in two Swedish regions were interviewed.

"I couldn't do this with opposition from my colleagues": a qualitative study of physicians' experiences as clinical tutors.

Background: Clinical contact in the early curriculum and workplace learning with active tutorship are important parts of modern medical education. In a previously published study, we found that medical students' tutors experienced a heavier workload, less reasonable demands and less encouragement, than students. The aim of this interview study was to further illuminate physicians' experiences as clinical tutors.

Medical students' and facilitators' experiences of an Early Professional Contact course: active and motivated students, strained facilitators.

Background: Today, medical students are introduced to patient contact, communication skills, and clinical examination in the preclinical years of the curriculum with the purpose of gaining clinical experience. These courses are often evaluated from the student perspective. Reports with an additional emphasis on the facilitator perspective are scarce.

[Early professional contact supports professional development of medical students. EPC--a new course in medical education in Gothenburg].

Early professional contact (EPC) is a new course for medical students during the first two years of the medical curriculum in the Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University. Small groups with four students and one tutor meet one day every month. The students participate in the clinical work together with the physician and his/her staff and practise communication with and examination of patients.