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Tarun Sen Gupta

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PubMed2005

[Norwegian and Australian physicians' attitudes to adverse events].

BACKGROUND: As "second victims", doctors may find it difficult to meet patients and relatives with an open and regretting mind after adverse incidents. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In a series of six workshops 103 doctors, 46 from Australia and 57 from Norway, were included. Initially the participants completed a questionnaire about possible reactions after serious adverse events, experiences with formal complaints and legal charges, and an option to describe a personally experienced adverse event. This was followed by an interactive educational session, where prevention and management of adverse events were discussed. A descriptive analysis based on a combination of questionnaire data and notes from the discussions has been performed. RESULT AND INTERPRETATION: The questionnaire responses showed that Australian and Norwegian doctors mainly did agree about the most appropriate ways of responding after a serious adverse event. Subsequent discussions showed that certain issues were recurrently and similarly discussed among the participants through all the workshops. Although the majority principally did agree on an open approach, an underlying sceptical attitude emerged, partially connected to experiences of being thoughtlessly blamed by colleagues in the wisdom of hindsight. The study outlines a strategy to raise doctors' understanding of the importance of openness in order to reinforce trust in relation to all involved parties--patient, relatives, colleagues and self--after adverse events.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed2003

Ruralising medical curricula: the importance of context in problem design.

The establishment of a new medical school in northern Australia, with its focus on preparing graduates to understand the health care needs of the regional population, has raised an interesting issue in problem design for teaching and assessing in an integrated curriculum. This issue is the extent to which the clinical content of a teaching or assessment problem should consider more subtle contextual issues that help to define the different roles played by rural practitioners, rather than what might be regarded as appropriate for "generic" medical education. This brief paper provides example case studies that highlight the challenge facing curriculum designers developing programs for rural clinical schools.

Australia↗
PubMed2002

A performance assessment module for experienced general practitioners.

OBJECTIVE: To trial in Australian general practice a performance assessment module based on review of a sample of videotaped consultations. DESIGN: As part of a broader project 33 doctors provided 20 videotaped consultations collected according patient age, gender and problems encountered. The consultations were rated by a single trained rater. RESULTS: The consultations covered sufficient variety of patient ages, gender balance and problems encountered to achieve validity and the single rater design achieved defensible reliability (generalisability coefficient 0.86). CONCLUSION: The module is suitable for further exploration as an optional method for certification or re-certification assessment.

Adolescent↗