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P-836 - What Trainees Really Think: the 2009 and 2010 National Trainee Survey of Trainee's Perception of Their Training in Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

E. Barrett ,
H. Barry ,
S. Guruswamy ,
M. McCarthy  and
E. Kavanagh
E. Barrett
Affiliation:
Dept of Liaison Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Our Lady's Hospital
H. Barry
Affiliation:
Dept of Psychiatry, St. Vincents Hospital, Fairview
S. Guruswamy
Affiliation:
St. Ita's Hospital, Portrane
M. McCarthy
Affiliation:
Ginesa Suite, St. John of God's Hospital
E. Kavanagh
Affiliation:
Postgraduate Training Officer, College of Psychiatry of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Abstract

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Aims and objectives

Identify the training/ learning needs perceived by Trainees using an online questionnaire developed for the task.

Methods

  1. • Literature review.

  2. • Ethical Approval.

  3. • Questionnaire developed, piloted.

  4. • Dissemination- of the survey to all trainees with email addresses registered with the College of Psychiatry of Ireland. Anonymised and encrypted survey,

  5. • 2009 survey- essentially functioned as pilot for 2010. Trainees were re-surveyed and the second national conference was held. Survey results analysed using surveymonkey tools, Excel and SPSS.

Results

  1. Response rates:

    • Survey

    • Response Rate- 2009 - 36%

    • Response Rate 2010 - 42%

  2. Demographics of respondents:

    • Basic Specialist trainee response rate: 2009 - 49% 2010 =54.1%.

    • 45.6% of respondents graduated from an Irish medical school;

    • 46.8% from a non- EU medical school, the remainder from EU medical schools.

  3. Current perception of training and career advice:

    • 25% of trainees indicated that they received adequate career advice on their training scheme.

  4. Training needs trainees wished to cover in a short course/ conference:

    • More than 20 areas of training were identified by trainees

Conclusions

Trainee views of training is increasingly recognised as a significant factor in long term career planning and in career choices.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 27 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry , 2012 , pp. 1
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2012
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