| Literature DB >> 25277827 |
David Wall, Helen Goodyear1, Baldev Singh, Andrew Whitehouse, Elizabeth Hughes, Jonathan Howes.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Three reports in 2013 about healthcare and patient safety in the UK, namely Berwick, Francis and Keogh have highlighted the need for junior doctors' views about their training experience to be heard. In the UK, the General Medical Council (GMC) quality assures medical training programmes and requires postgraduate deaneries to undertake quality management and monitoring of all training posts in their area. The aim of this study was to develop a simple trainee questionnaire for evaluation of postgraduate training posts based on the GMC, UK standards and to look at the reliability and validity including comparison with a well-established and internationally validated tool, the Postgraduate Hospital Educational Environment Measure (PHEEM).Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25277827 PMCID: PMC4200137 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-14-210
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMC Med Educ ISSN: 1472-6920 Impact factor: 2.463
Figure 1Quality assurance, quality management and quality control of UK postgraduate medical training.
Figure 2West Midlands Deanery standards for evaluation of posts prior to 2006.
General Medical Council standards for Postgraduate Deaneries
| Domain Number | Domain |
|---|---|
| 1 | Patient safety |
| 2 | Quality management, review and evaluation |
| 3 | Equality and diversity and opportunity |
| 4 | Recruitment, selection and appointment* |
| 5 | Delivery of approved curriculum including assessment |
| 6 | Support and development of trainees, trainers and local faculty |
| 7 | Management of education and training |
| 8 | Educational resources and capacity |
| 9 | Outcomes (of training programmes) |
*Domain 4 is not assessed by trainee survey but by collecting information regarding Deanery recruitment processes.
Timeline of development and testing of JEST
| Date | Progress |
|---|---|
| March to October 2006 | JEST is developed with 15 standards based on the General Medical Council requirements |
| 2007 | Pilot testing of JEST by Foundation trainees |
| 2008 | Field testing of JEST by Paediatric specialist registrars |
| 2008-2011 | Widespread use of JEST by Foundation trainees |
Figure 3The Job Evaluation Survey tool (JEST) questionnaire.
Scores for the JEST questions
| Foundation doctors in pilot | Paediatric specialist registrars | Foundation doctors | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domain | No | Mean scores | Score range | SD | No | Mean | Score range | SD | No | Mean | Score range | SD |
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| 75 | 3.85 | 2-5 | 0.82 | 170 | 3.77 | 2-5 | 0.74 | 3367 | 4.10 | 1-5 | 0.79 |
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| 65 | 3.57 | 1-5 | 0.87 | 155 | 3.67 | 1-5 | 0.79 | 3367 | 3.92 | 1-5 | 0.76 |
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| 76 | 3.49 | 1-5 | 1.13 | 171 | 3.57 | 1-5 | 0.83 | 3367 | 3.89 | 1-5 | 0.90 |
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| 76 | 3.93 | 1-5 | 0.81 | 159 | 3.74 | 1-5 | 0.70 | 3367 | 4.00 | 1-5 | 0.84 |
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| 76 | 3.76 | 1-5 | 0.93 | 157 | 3.39 | 1-5 | 0.77 | 3367 | 3.86 | 1-5 | 0.93 |
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| 75 | 3.85 | 1-5 | 1.06 | 168 | 3.67 | 1-5 | 1.01 | 3367 | 3.92 | 1-5 | 1.02 |
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| 72 | 3.32 | 1-5 | 0.95 | 170 | 3.48 | 1-5 | 0.86 | 3367 | 3.77 | 1-5 | 0.93 |
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| 75 | 3.55 | 1-5 | 1.17 | 170 | 3.90 | 1-5 | 0.83 | 3367 | 3.95 | 1-5 | 1.00 |
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| 76 | 3.62 | 1-5 | 0.97 | 171 | 3.73 | 2-5 | 0.64 | 3367 | 3.77 | 1-5 | 0.90 |
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| 75 | 3.61 | 1-5 | 0.82 | 153 | 3.64 | 1-5 | 0.70 | 3367 | 3.86 | 1-5 | 0.77 |
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| 74 | 3.58 | 2-5 | 0.86 | 152 | 3.46 | 1-5 | 0.80 | 3367 | 3.82 | 1-5 | 0.86 |
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| 75 | 3.73 | 2-5 | 0.76 | 164 | 3.48 | 1-5 | 0.93 | 3367 | 3.75 | 1-5 | .10 |
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| 61 | 3.51 | 1-5 | 0.91 | 144 | 3.02 | 1-5 | 0.94 | 3367 | 3.33 | 1-5 | 0.97 |
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| 76 | 3.63 | 1-5 | 1.08 | 168 | 3.56 | 1-5 | 0.86 | 3367 | 3.91 | 1-5 | 0.91 |
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| 52 | 3.58 | 2-5 | 0.75 | 111 | 3.00 | 1-5 | 0.94 | 3367 | 3.69 | 1-5 | 0.79 |
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| 3367 | 57.57 | 75.0 | 8.87 | ||||||||
Descriptive Statistics for PHEEM overall and three subscales
| Domain | Number | Minimum | Maximum | Mean | Standard deviation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| 3367 | 24.00 | 160.00 | 117.31 | 18.82 |
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| 3367 | 8.00 | 56.00 | 40.53 | 6.98 |
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| 3367 | 1.00 | 60.00 | 45.26 | 8.59 |
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| 3367 | 9.00 | 44.00 | 31.52 | 4.80 |
Figure 4Correlation between overall PHEEM scores and total Jest Scores for 3367 sets of evaluation scores.
Factors from 3367 Foundation doctors JEST scores
| JEST questions | Factor | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
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| 0.815 | |
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| 0.793 | |
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| 0.688 | |
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| 0.675 | |
|
| 0.661 | |
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| 0.629 | |
|
| 0.593 | |
|
| 0.503 | |
|
| 0.740 | |
|
| 0.688 | |
|
| 0.688 | |
|
| 0.632 | |
|
| 0.512 | 0.519 |
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| 0.519 | |
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