Aims The foundation programme aims to provide junior doctors with a supportive and
educational workplace to ensure the development of safe and proficient future practitioners …

Reduced working hours and fragmentation of the surgical firm has resulted in a gradual
change in FY1 duties. Locally, FY1 doctors were no longer routinely seeing surgical …

Objectives To develop, implement and evaluate a novel patient safety training programme
for junior doctors across a Foundation School—'Lessons Learnt: Building a Safer …

After passing final examinations, graduation from medical school is thought to be a time to
celebrate, however, most view it as the calm before the storm with students finding the …

An analytical, cross-sectional survey of 270 emergency department patients and 92 staff
undertaken in three tertiary referral hospital emergency departments was completed to …

Aim–To identify the factors that impact upon attendance at clinical mandatory training
sessions. Method–A quantitative approach was used, utilising a questionnaire sent to 400 …

Doctors commencing Foundation Year (FY) training face many stresses and challenges. FY
doctors are often the first point of contact for acutely unwell and deteriorating patients. Trust …

Objective Changing patient demographics make it ever more challenging to maintain the
quality and safety of care. One approach to addressing this is the development of training for …

The risks to patients at August handover time are well known, yet there is no national
consensus on the best way to deliver induction programmes for Foundation Year One (F1) …

Abstract The term 'Black Wednesday'has been used to describe the August national
changeover day, a day when a new cohort of inexperienced doctors start work, many of …