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Friday, January 27, 2006
Surviving the night shift
A working group led by the RCP has just produced a booklet for junior doctors full of advice on how to cope with night shift work. Working the night shift: preparation, survival and recovery is downloadable free from the RCP website or can be purchased from the RCP. Well-referenced and with a huge breadth of contributors, it looks like a useful guide - and just in time for induction and rotations too.
The working group also recommends that doctors should not work more than four nights in a row, and there will be more recommendations on this to follow. We've discussed this recently when the prospect of single nights was mooted in the BMJ, and in our poll on the subject, split weeks of 3 and 4 nights emerged as the favoured option. It looks as if that may become a common view, so worth keeping in mind for new rotas.
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The working group also recommends that doctors should not work more than four nights in a row, and there will be more recommendations on this to follow. We've discussed this recently when the prospect of single nights was mooted in the BMJ, and in our poll on the subject, split weeks of 3 and 4 nights emerged as the favoured option. It looks as if that may become a common view, so worth keeping in mind for new rotas.
New MMC diagram
UK MMC Career Framework Proposal. Don't get excited - the run through grades are just one big box - but it is a straightforward presentation of what we already know. There is also an explanation, which reveals the exciting news that each run through programme will have a curriculum, and that the length of training will vary. (I confess to not having read this in huge detail yet, so if you find more useful details, let me know.) Apparently however PMETB have agreed principles for entry to specialist training (BMJ Career Focus).
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