An assessment of the simulated performance of basic clinical procedures by junior doctors during the first year of clinical practice.

Background: Upon entering the healthcare system, junior doctors may lack the skills required to care for patients, and feel unprepared for their role, with considerable variation in the level of proficiency in the performance of particular clinical procedures.

Objective: To compare the performance and proficiency (self-report and observed) of the performance of nine basic clinical procedures.

Methods: Seventeen interns were observed performing nine clinical procedures in a simulated setting in June 2021 (Assessment 1) and January 2022 (Assessment 2).

Longitudinal survey of self-reported level of entrustment across the first year of clinical practice.

Newly graduated medical students often report that they lack the skills required to care for patients, and feel unprepared for clinical practice. However, little is known about when, and if, they acquire these skills in practice. The aim of this study was to assess self-reported level of entrustment in, and frequency of performance of, the seven Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) comprising the EPA framework for interns in Ireland.

A mixed-methods examination of the nature and frequency of medical error among junior doctors.

Purpose Of The Study: To examine junior doctors' experience and perceptions of medical errors in which they had been involved.

Study Design: A mixed-methods design, consisting of an error survey and critical incident technique (CIT) interviews, was used. The survey asked doctors in the first year of postgraduate training in Ireland whether they had made a medical error that had 'played on (their) mind', and if so, to identify factors that had contributed to the error.

Stress, coping, and psychological resilience among physicians.

Background: Recent research has demonstrated that burnout is widespread among physicians, and impacts their wellbeing, and that of patients. Such data have prompted efforts to teach resilience among physicians, but efforts are hampered by a lack of understanding of how physicians experience resilience and stress. This study aimed to contribute to knowledge regarding how physicians define resilience, the challenges posed by workplace stressors, and strategies which enable physicians to cope with these stressors.

Disturbing and distressing: a mixed methods study on the psychological impact of end of life care on junior doctors.

Background: The Irish Medical Council has identified gaps in knowledge and communications skills of new-entrant doctors in legal, ethical and practical aspects of end of life care.

Aims: To determine the frequency with which junior doctors deal with end of life care and patient death and to evaluate the impact this has on their psychological wellbeing.

Design: A questionnaire was distributed to junior doctors to determine the frequency with which the participants had managed a patient at end of life.

A mixed method, multiperspective evaluation of a near peer teaching programme.

Purpose Of Study: Peer teaching (PT) has become increasingly popular. PT may offer benefits for students, tutors and institutions. Although resistance to PT has been identified among faculty, research has typically focused on students' experiences and perceptions, rather than those of the peer tutors or senior doctors/medical faculty.