Undertake scholarly activities

At the early registrar level it is expected that a prevocational doctor will have undertaken scholarly activities

This task describes a number of opportunities achievable by the end of PGY3. 
  • Presented a paper at State meeting
  • Working on clinical research towards a major meeting or publication
    • Commenced course as relevant to self
    • Postgraduate anatomy courses
    • Education or leadership courses
    • Genuine research interest
    • Made contact locally or visited elsewhere
    • Research or project discussed with researcher
    • Plans for when/where research could be done
  • PGY 1
  • PGY 2
  • PGY 3

  • Scholarship and teaching

    • Attend unit or morbidity/mortality meetings. Identify any personal knowledge, skills or behaviour changes required
    • Participate in research, quality improvement and clinical audit activities where possible
      • Participate in research
      • Undertake literature searches relevant to the clinical care of patients, including use of PubMed, Medline and Cochrane reviews
      • Apply critical appraisal skills when reading medical literature
      • Compare outcomes of published research studies relating to clinical care within the unit
    • Reflect on and learn from own observations of clinical practice

  • Scholarship and teaching

    • Assist with a research trial being undertaken in the organisation that may lead to presentation or publication
      • Frame a clinical question
      • Analyse and present outcome of literature search to colleagues, both oral and written form
      • Apply appropriate statistical methods to answer a clinical question
    • Use the Plan, Do, Study, Act audit cycle, and take an audit through the first steps
    • Use current evidence-based resources in own learning, in communicating with patients and in making decisions about the care of patients

  • Technical expertise

  • Professionalism
    • Respond positively to suggestions for performance improvement

  • Scholarship and teaching

    • Identify personal learning objectives using a learning plan
    • Involvement with a research trial, research based on multi-disciplinary care, or quality improvement activities being undertaken in the organisation
      • Write an abstract for submission to an appropriate health/clinical meeting
      • Write a scientific paper
      • Present a research paper at a conference
      • Interpret confidence intervals, levels of significance (p values), and study power when reviewing results of clinical trials
    • Support audit by junior medical trainees and within the multi-disciplinary team
      • Apply evidence to a specific clinical situation and describe how findings influence practice
      • Use audit findings to develop and implement change

  • Technical expertise

    • Able to assess advanced Essential Surgical Skills constructs (competent with basic and intermediate) both for use in current position as well as for surgical education and training (SET) application – career pathway
    • Competent with intermediate and many of the advanced Essential Surgical Skills constructs