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Experiences from psychiatric rotation for pre‐registration house officers: contributions to subjective learning
Author(s) -
Sørensen Høifødt Tordis,
Sexton Hal,
Olstad Reidun
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2004.01796.x
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , pre registration , psychology , psychiatry , medical education , clinical psychology , medicine , social psychology
Setting The clinical experience and the subjective learning of pre‐registration house officers who completed 4 months’ psychiatric rotation are described. Method The study was cross‐sectional and based on self‐report. The participants had responded to an anonymous questionnaire at the completion of their 4 months’ psychiatric rotation in the period 1999–2001. Of those eligible ( n = 137), 85 (61%) completed the questionnaire. The relationships between individual background variables, different factors of the learning environment, and good learning outcome were explored. Conclusions The subjective learning benefit and positive learning environment were most related to the amount of practical experience, the degree of tailoring of the tasks to the house officers’ competence, and to the formal intramural teaching programme. Supervision, gender, previous experience, and prior interest in psychiatry did not have significant impact on subjective learning. The findings are discussed in terms of the learning model that was developed.