Undertake scholarly activities
At the early registrar level it is expected that a prevocational doctor will have undertaken scholarly activities.
This task describes a number of opportunities achievable by the end of PGY3.
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Related Competencies:
Scholarship and teaching
Attend unit or morbidity/mortality meetings. Identify any personal knowledge, skills or behaviour changes required
Scholarship and teaching
Participate in research, quality improvement and clinical audit activities where possible
- Participate in research
- Undertake literature searches relevant to the clinical care of patients, including use of PubMed, Medline and Cochrane reviews
- Apply critical appraisal skills when reading medical literature
- Compare outcomes of published research studies relating to clinical care within the unit
Scholarship and teaching
Reflect on and learn from own observations of clinical practice
Scholarship and teaching
Assist with a research trial being undertaken in the organisation that may lead to presentation or publication
- Frame a clinical question
- Analyse and present outcome of literature search to colleagues, both oral and written form
- Apply appropriate statistical methods to answer a clinical question
Scholarship and teaching
Use the Plan, Do, Study, Act audit cycle, and take an audit through the first steps
Scholarship and teaching
Use current evidence-based resources in own learning, in communicating with patients and in making decisions about the care of patients
Technical expertise
Engage with Basic and Intermediate surgical constructs
Technical expertise
Assist with teaching junior staff
Professionalism
Respond positively to suggestions for performance improvement
Scholarship and teaching
Identify personal learning objectives using a learning plan
Scholarship and teaching
Involvement with a research trial, research based on multi-disciplinary care, or quality improvement activities being undertaken in the organisation
- Write an abstract for submission to an appropriate health/clinical meeting
- Write a scientific paper
- Present a research paper at a conference
- Interpret confidence intervals, levels of significance (p values), and study power when reviewing results of clinical trials
Scholarship and teaching
Support audit by junior medical trainees and within the multi-disciplinary team
- Apply evidence to a specific clinical situation and describe how findings influence practice
- Use audit findings to develop and implement change
Technical expertise
Able to assess advanced Essential Surgical Skills constructs (competent with basic and intermediate) both for use in current position as well as for surgical education and training (SET) application – career pathway
- refer to pages 12-14 of the Essential Surgical Skills Document
Technical expertise
Competent with intermediate and many of the advanced Essential Surgical Skills constructs
- refer to pages 12-14 of the Essential Surgical Skills Document
Scholarship and teaching
Enrol in a post-graduate course related to clinical career pathway (or more broadly, such as education)
Scholarship and teaching
Research years (pre- or post-acceptance into specialty training program)
Scholarship and teaching
Assist with curriculum development, e.g. online resources for a university medical school