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Table 4 Coded Transition to Practice Topics from Scoping Review and National Survey

From: Transition to practice curriculum for general internal medicine physicians: scoping review and Canadian national survey

THEME

SUB-THEME

CODE (Table 2)

CURRICULAR COMPETENCIES

Building a Career

Career mentorship

1,17

Develop a career plan for promotions and career building

Career mentorship

1,8

Learn the policies and protocols for the hospital and health system

Career mentorship

14

Identify leadership opportunities and develop a personal leadership plan

Job application skills

23

Create a personal curriculum vitae and cover letter

Job application skills

22

Identify the interview process and receive interview feedback prior to formal interviews

Job application skills

6

Find available jobs

Job application skills

4

Negotiate a job/contract

Identification of desired job

39

Determine how to choose between urban and rural location job

Identification of desired job

36

Determine how to choose between academic and community practice job

Identification of desired job

16

Learn the differences between salary/payment systems

Continuing Professional Development

Continuous professional education

19

Identify learning needs in clinical practice and create personal learning plan

Professional bodies and memberships

24

Resources for licensing, education, and professional associations

Expectations of Profession

Medicolegal

10, 12

Learn and to demonstrate best practice for effective documentation

Medicolegal

10, 33

Learn local reporting obligations

Medicolegal

35

Demonstrate best practice for informed consent

Professional conduct

29

Learn and demonstrate best practice for social media use

Professional conduct

40

Describe the importance of collegiality

Professional conduct

26

Demonstrate effective methods to presenting to the public

Professional conduct

27

Describe and demonstrate effective methods of advocacy

Quality Improvement in practice

25

Identify and analyze system level safety

Teaching/supervising role

11

Demonstrate how to be an effective teacher, and how to provide effective feedback to learners

Practice Management

Practice finances

3, 2

Demonstrate competence at billing and coding

Practice finances

3, 20

Identify financial aspects of managing a practice

Strategy for learning in TTP

9,15

Greater autonomy during residency with resident-run clinics

Life, Health and Well-being

Money

5,13

Develop a personal financial plan, including understanding of debt management/life,health and disability insurance, and incorporation

Person

7

Develop a personal and professional priority and action plan, for work-life balance

Clinical Skills

 

30

Learn and demonstrate best practice for patient signovers

18

Demonstrate effective communication with colleagues

21,37

Demonstrate understanding of the roles of members of the multidisciplinary team, demonstrate understanding of their role in transitioning patients safely into community care

31

Identify common techniques for conflict resolution

32

Demonstrate best practice for breaking bad news to patients

34

Demonstrate strategies for managing challenging family members

38

Demonstrate best practice for difficult patient conversations

28, 21

Demonstrate understanding of available outpatient patient resources