Newcastle Dental Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Western Health and Social Care Trust.
Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2021 Sep;59(7):763-770. doi: 10.1016/j.bjoms.2020.08.111. Epub 2020 Sep 1.
The on-call component of a dental core training (DCT) post in oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) is considered to be the most daunting and challenging aspect of the job. The average trainee is a singly-qualified dentist with limited knowledge and experience of managing OMFS presentations. Given the short duration of DCT posts, there is a continual rotation of junior staff through OMFS departments with a varying skillset and knowledge mix. As such, the consistent recording of appropriate information remains a constant challenge. The coronavirus pandemic has presented a unique situation in which the majority of dental foundation trainees (DFTs) entering OMFS DCT posts will only have around six months experience of independent practice. This lack of experience and onerous on-call workload could be a potentially dangerous combination, especially during nightshift patterns of on-call. We demonstrate that implementation of an on-call bleep-sheet proforma provides a validated, standardised, systematic, and chronological method of record keeping that exceeds the minimum required standard of clinical governance, in an era where junior trainees entering OMFS will have had even more limited experience than normal.
口腔颌面外科（OMFS）的牙科核心培训（DCT）岗位中的值班部分被认为是该工作最令人生畏和具有挑战性的方面。普通受训者是一名单一资格的牙医，对 OMFS 表现的管理知之甚少且经验有限。鉴于 DCT 岗位的持续时间较短，初级工作人员会不断在 OMFS 部门之间轮换，他们的技能和知识组合也各不相同。因此，始终如一地记录适当的信息仍然是一个持续的挑战。冠状病毒大流行带来了一个独特的情况，即进入 OMFS DCT 岗位的大多数牙科基础培训生（DFTs）只有大约六个月的独立实践经验。这种缺乏经验和繁重的值班工作量可能是一种潜在的危险组合，尤其是在夜间值班模式下。我们证明，实施值班蜂鸣器单格式提供了一种经过验证的、标准化的、系统的和按时间顺序记录的方法，超过了临床治理的最低要求标准，因为进入 OMFS 的初级受训者的经验甚至比正常情况下更有限。
