Table 3 Responses to the question of what was learned, categorised, and sorted under the overall objectives of the course

Categories covered by the overall objectives of the program

 Assess the competencies of the Doctor on-call and adapt your own work to match this

  • Strengthened own clinical competence

  • Ways of working as an on-call consultant

  • Support the Doctor on-call

 Guide and support the Doctor on call to work in a satisfactory, independent way and assume primary responsibility as needed

  • Support the Doctor on-call

  • Strengthened consultant on-call competences

  • Define own competence

 Collaborate with and set appropriate boundaries with other levels of care and specialists/specialties

  • Consensus within the region

  • Consensus within the region when managing paediatric emergency situations

  • Importance of networks

  • Understand own and other’s competence

 Collaborate with social and other authorities, as well as the police

  • See the child’s perspective in relation to its parents

  • Take care of child maltreatment

 Manage the primary phase of disaster and unexpected events, as well as contact with the press

  • Manage media contacts

  • Apply the disaster contingency plan

  • Manage emergency situations

 Develop your own basic paediatric knowledge and clinical skills relating to conditions and situations that may occur during a weekend on call

  • Extended competence

  • More in-depth competence

  • Methods for seeking knowledge

  • Manage medical emergency situations

  • Take responsibility for own continuing professional development (CPD)

 Take the initiative and responsibility for updating your basic knowledge and skills relating to conditions and situations that may occur during a weekend on call

  • Take responsibility for my own CPD

  • Update my knowledge

  • Method for quickly searching for knowledge

  • Manage medical emergency situations

Categories that fell outside the overall objectives of the program

 Knowledge, skills and experiences

  • Ways of managing things I don’t know

  • Security in the role of on-call consultant

  • Confidence

  • Less stress in and when presented with emergency situations

  • The importance of personal contacts and networks

  • Apply modern pedagogics

  • Apply knowledge that improves colleagues and my practice

  • Understand the role of an on-call consultant at different levels of care

  • Confirms that I can work as an on-call consultant

  • Understand other professional’s competences

  • The importance of one’s own competence and CPD

  • Define my competence

  • Sometimes the objectives do not match my own expectations

 Miscellaneous

  • Time for new ideas, share thoughts and reflect

  • Confidence shown by my manager gave me the chance to control preparations

  • The course is unable to deal with my anxiety relating to administrative problems such as gaps in the on-call schedule and the lack of beds for sick children in the region

  • Reference cases

  • “When I learn something, I also want to learn it in detail, but that wasn’t really the target”

  • You need to keep learning the whole time