Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, Leeds, UK
Leeds Institute of Medical Education, Leeds, UK.
Clin Med (Lond). 2019 Jan;19(1):4-10. doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.19-1-4.
The introduction of new professional roles to the multidisciplinary team has been heralded as a way to facilitate medical education in the face of increasing service pressures. However, concerns have been raised that the training of new healthcare professionals will dilute the availability of learning opportunities, thereby detracting from postgraduate medical education. As part of a mixed methods exploratory study, the experienced impact of newly qualified physician associates on medical training was explored. Within 6 months of newly qualified physician associates being introduced, half of junior doctors reported no overall impact on their training and a third felt that their training was enhanced by the presence of physician associates. A minority of trainees experienced dilution of training opportunities. The findings support the notion that new healthcare professionals do not detract from medical training and suggest that roles such as the physician associate have potential to enhance postgraduate medical education.
引入新的专业角色到多学科团队中，被认为是在面对日益增长的服务压力时促进医学教育的一种方式。然而，有人担心，新的医疗保健专业人员的培训将减少学习机会的可用性，从而影响研究生医学教育。作为一项混合方法探索性研究的一部分，研究了新合格的医师助理对医学培训的经验影响。在新合格的医师助理入职后的 6 个月内，有一半的初级医生报告说他们的培训没有总体影响，三分之一的人认为医师助理的存在增强了他们的培训。少数受训者经历了培训机会的稀释。研究结果支持这样一种观点，即新的医疗保健专业人员不会影响医学培训，并表明医师助理等角色有可能增强研究生医学教育。
