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WONCA APR Conference 2019 » Workshop
[WS3-27] A job for life – helping family doctors stay active in the workforce
Fri. May 17, 2019 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Room 9 (2F Room I)
Organizer: Amanda Howe(Immediate Past President Wonca / Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, UK)
Chair: Aileen Espina(Chair of the Wonca Working Party on Women and Family Medicine, Phillipines)
Lead Presenter: Amanda Howe(Immediate Past President Wonca / Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, UK)
Group Facilitator: Amanda Barnard(Australian National University, Canberra and past Chair WWPWFM, Australia)
Our Wonca research study took two years. We found that people valued but did not know the literature about psychological resilience
- They recommended more use of these concepts in training and in practice
- Rehearsing scenarios where things could go wrong helped with planning and support, which is crucial to resilience and to workforce retention
- Legislation, skilled human resource expertise, and clear practical procedures are all important
- Flexible working can keep people in work, whereas rigid expectations which ignore people’s health and pwersonal needs risk losing people from the workplace.
- Gendered expectations of women doctors as the main carers in the home also need to be consciously addressed, and managed.
- Individual mentorship and named links during transitions may be very important.
All these findings will be examined in detail in an interactive setting in the workshop. We shall use typical scenarios to help participants think through how they would address some of these issues as individual professionals, clinic colleagues, and in their professional settings.
Outcomes – all participants will be able to take new insights and findings back to their own work settings, and will be able to use the slides / toolkit and scenarios for helping their colleagues also to learn from this ongoing work.