Generational Diversity in the Medical Profession

ConditionsGeneration Gap Generations Intergenerational Relations

Trial statusNot yet recruiting

Trial phaseNot listed

Trial typeObservational

Biological sexAll

Age18-100

SponsorUniversity Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust

About this trial

The purpose of this work is to investigate how post-graduate doctors in training (PGDiTs) experience generational diversity with their colleagues in the workplace. The investigators want to explore and understand how PGDiTs perceive and experience generational diversity in the workplace and look into where these differences between generations could come from.

The research team wants to do this by running focus groups. These focus groups would be made up of PGDiTs that are working within one hospital. The doctors will be split into the different generations (i.e. generation X, Y and Z). A set list of questions will be used to prompt and guide the focus group conversations. Each focus group will be audio-recorded using an electronic device and then analysed with the aid of computer software. The investigators will then generate themes from the data and use this to create an overall story of the data.

It is hoped that this research can help inform supervisors and employers of the impact of generational diversity on on PGDiTs. This may be used to help develop ways of improving working relationships for PGDiTs with their supervisors and employers.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Any medically qualified healthcare professional with a General Medical Council (GMC) registration number, AND

Currently working in a recognised training programme in the Southwest (i.e. foundation year training, integrated medical training, core surgical training, acute care common stem training, higher specialty training), AND

Currently based at University Hospitals Plymouth (UHP), AND

Consents to being interviewed and recorded for the purposes of the study.

Disqualifiers

None

Trial population

The study participants must a postgraduate doctor-in-training working within a recognised training programme in the Southwest of England and currently based at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. This will range from newly qualified doctors that are working within the foundation programme to doctors that are working in higher specialty training programmes.

Trial design

Design model

Other

Time perspective

Prospective

Treatments tested in this trial

Focus Group.
Other intervention
Participants in each focus group will attend a face-to-face (or virtual) meeting that lasts approximately 90 minutes. This will be composed of a briefing period, interview period supported and guided by an interview schedule and finishing with a debrief period. The same process will be followed if individual semi-structured interviews are undertaken.

Treatment groups

30 Participants

are divided into 3 treatment groups

Group A: Generational X1 intervention

Group B: Generation Y1 intervention

Group C: Generation Z1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

Thematic Analysis

Qualitative data analysis will be conducted using thematic analysis to generate a number of codes and themes from the transcripts generated from focus groups and semi-structured interviews.

Time frame

4 months.

Locations

This trial has no locations.

Sponsors and contacts

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University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust

Lead sponsor

University of Plymouth

Collaborator

Health Education England, Wessex