Innovative recruitment and clinical orientation programme to manage NHS junior doctor shortfall: A district hospital experience

International medical graduates (IMGs) contribute significantly towards the NHS care provision. No standardised clinical orientation programme (COP) for IMGs new to the NHS exists. Our objective was to describe recruitment and retention strategies for junior doctors (JDs) in general medicine and dev...

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Published in:Future healthcare journal 2020-06, Vol.7 (2), p.131-136
Main Authors: Quadery, Syed Rehan, Roodbari, Hamid, Pardeshi, Pradeep, Shah, Dilip, Ahmed, Hira, Jain, Seema, Saridis, Jason, Rahman, Shakil, Ratnasingam, Nithiyananthan, Ebdon, Caroline, Bogle, Richard, Marsh, James, Charlton, Ruth, Lim, Guan, Makanjoula, David, Camp, Daniel, Winn, Simon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
clinical orientation programme
Health service research
medical education
Original Research
quality improvement
realist theory
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Summary:International medical graduates (IMGs) contribute significantly towards the NHS care provision. No standardised clinical orientation programme (COP) for IMGs new to the NHS exists. Our objective was to describe recruitment and retention strategies for junior doctors (JDs) in general medicine and develop a framework to anticipate outcomes of these interventions using the realist evaluation methodology. We performed quality improvement interventions of recruitment and COP for new entrant IMGs in our organisation employed between December 2017 and April 2019. Twenty-three IMGs were recruited, 96% successfully completed the COP with a mean contract duration of 13±5 months. From the academic year 2017/18 to 2018/19, mean JD post occupancy increased from 54±3 to 73±4 JDs (p
ISSN:2514-6645
2514-6653
DOI:10.7861/fhj.2019-0047