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#futurefriday: are recent #generations really that different...? "The modern trainee wants exactly what doctors have always wanted: to see patients regularly, to diagnose, to treat, and to learn" In this viewpoint by Matthew Roycroft in the BMJ several important issues with regard to the effects generation and #intergenerational differences are discussed. BMJ 2018;362:k3102 -> substantial intergenerational differences have evolved over the past 50 years -> recent generations, although remaining career motivated, are far more #demanding of #flexibility and a #worklifebalance than previous generations -> it is imminent to see the #changes that have happened to both medicine itself and our training over the same period of time So what has changed in the past decades? For example: - training grade doctors work shorter hours than their predecessors, but those hours are incredibly #demanding - treatment options for most conditions have #evolved and consequently the potential for doctors to get it wrong - more #complex decision making due to the growth in treatment options (for almost every condition); requiring greater #knowledge and increasing the chance of #error, both of omission and commission - -> The stress of long hours has simply been replaced by a different kind of stress: that of shorter but more intense working 😰😰 On the other hand senior clinicians 👴👨⚕️ are also overloaded with increasing demands, which means that there is less time for training, placing a strain on the trainee-trainer relationship. Conclusions: -->> If trainees can appreciate that their #abilities are #different from those of equivalently experienced doctors a decade or two before, and if their supervisors can appreciate that trainees themselves aren’t to blame for that, then hopefully we can move the discussion on to something more useful. "let’s start thinking about what we can do to improve things within the constraints of the present system" An important message, that is still applicable, in general and for #surgery in specific #futuresurgeon Matthew Roycroft Future Surgeon Groene Hart Ziekenhuis Federatie Medisch Specialisten NHS VAGH Dutch Surgical Society for Medical Students De Geneeskundestudent Marijn Houwert Menno Vriens Inne Borel Rinkes VvAA Sofie Fransen Susanne van der Velde Floortje Huizing Vincent Sier Stijn Gorgels Begüm P. Marald Wikkeling MD MBA Jaco Tresfon Heleen Snijders Abbey Schepers Joris Blok

Medicine’s generation gap: let’s stop comparing

Medicine’s generation gap: let’s stop comparing

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