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FY1JobAnalysisReportImprovingSelectiontotheFoundationProgramme

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ProfessorFionaPattersonVickiArcherDrMaireKerrinVictoriaCarrLouiseFaulkesPhillipaCoanDrDavidGood

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AcknowledgementsThisprojectwasconductedby theWorkPsychologyGroup incollaborationwith theUniversityofCambridgeonbehalfof the ImprovingSelection to theFoundationProgrammeProjectGroup.TheISFP Project Group, Chaired by Professor Paul ONeill, includes representatives from fifteenorganisations: the Academy ofMedical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), the BritishMedical Association(BMA)MedicalStudentsCommittee,theConferenceofPostgraduateMedicalDeans(CoPMED),thefourUKDepartmentsofHealth, theGeneralMedicalCouncil (GMC), theMedicalSchoolsCouncil,theNorthern IrelandMedical andDental TrainingAgency (NIMDTA),NHS Education for Scotland(NES), NHS Employers (NHSE), the Scottish Board for Academic Medicine, the UK FoundationProgrammeOffice (UKFPO) and clinical tutors. The ISFP Project is funded by theDepartment ofHealth.

TheCodirectorsoftheprojecttodevelopaSituationalJudgementTestforISFPareProfessorFionaPattersonandDrDavidGood.Thecoreproject teamconsistedofProfessorFionaPatterson,VickiArcher, DrMaire Kerrin, Victoria Carr, Louise Faulkes and Phillipa Coan in conjunctionwith theMedicalSchoolsCouncilprojectteamincludingProfessorPaulONeill,ProfessorTonyWeetman,DrKatiePettySaphon,DrDenisShaughnessy,SiobhanFitzpatrickandAmyStringer.

TheprojectteamswouldliketothanktheCambridgeUniversityHospitalsNHSFoundationTrust,UniversityHospitalofSouthManchesterNHSFoundationTrustandNHSHighlandinScotlandforenablinginsightfulshadowingofFoundationdoctors.WeareespeciallygratefultostaffattheUKFPO,AoMRCandUKmedicalschoolsforfacilitatingtheresearch,andtotheindividualFoundationSchoolDirectorsandManagers,FoundationProgrammeDirectors,Foundationdoctors,MedicalSchoolEducationDeans,Consultantclinicaltutorsandpatientrepresentativeswhosharedtheirtimeandexpertise.WewouldliketoaddapersonalthankyoutoDrAlysBurns,EastofEnglandDeanery;DrIanCurran,LondonDeanery;LynneHobbs,Methods;ProfessorStephenPowis,RoyalFreeHampsteadNHSTrust;andDrKimWalker,NHSEducationforScotland,fortheircontributionstothisresearch.

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Contents1. ExecutiveSummary.........................................................................................................................1

2 Introduction....................................................................................................................................3

2.1 Purposeofthejobanalysis.....................................................................................................3

2.2 Structureofthisreport...........................................................................................................3

3 JobAnalysis.....................................................................................................................................4

3.1 Introduction............................................................................................................................4

3.2 Jobanalysisapproach.............................................................................................................4

3.3 Literaturereview.....................................................................................................................6

3.4 Semistructuredinterviews.....................................................................................................8

3.5 Observations(Shadowing)....................................................................................................11

3.6 Validationquestionnaire.......................................................................................................12

4 AnalysisoftheData......................................................................................................................14

4.1 Analysisstrategyfortheinterviews......................................................................................14

4.2 Creationofthetemplate......................................................................................................15

4.3 Analysisstrategyfortheobservations..................................................................................15

4.4 ValidationofProfessionalAttributesFramework.................................................................15

5. ResultsofJobAnalysis..................................................................................................................18

5.1 ProfessionalAttributesFramework......................................................................................18

5.2 Findingsfromtheliteraturereview......................................................................................18

5.3 Findingsfromtheinterviews................................................................................................29

5.4 Findingsfromobservations...................................................................................................32

5.5 Findingsfromvalidationquestionnaire................................................................................33

5.6 Summaryoffindings.............................................................................................................36

5.7 Mappingontoexistingmaterial...........................................................................................37

6.SituationalJudgementTestDesignSpecification..........................................................................41

6.1 SJTliteraturereview.............................................................................................................41

6.2 Purposeofthetest................................................................................................................42

6.3 TargetattributedomainsfortheSJT....................................................................................43

6.4 Context..................................................................................................................................47

6.5 Itemselectionmethodology.................................................................................................47

6.6 Responseformats.................................................................................................................48

6.7 Testlength............................................................................................................................49

6.8 Teststructure.......................................................................................................................49

6.9 Scoringkey...........................................................................................................................49

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6.10 Multipleforms......................................................................................................................50

7. SummaryandConclusions............................................................................................................51

8. References....................................................................................................................................52

Appendix1:LiteratureReviewSpecification&SearchStrategy..........................................................55

Appendix2:JobAnalysisParticipantBriefing.......................................................................................59

Appendix3:FY1DoctorJobAnalysisQuestions...................................................................................61

Appendix4:PatientRepresentativeBriefing........................................................................................63

Appendix5:ObservationObserveandRecordSheet..........................................................................65

Appendix6:FoundationYearOneDoctorProfessionalAttributesQuestionnaire..............................66

Appendix7:FoundationProgrammeCommencingAugust2010........................................................69

Appendix8:FY1LiteratureReviewTable.............................................................................................71

Appendix9:SituationalJudgementTestLiteratureReviewTable.....................................................83

Appendix10:ProjectTeamBiographies.............................................................................................104

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1. ExecutiveSummary1.1 Thepurposeofthejobanalysiswastodefinetheprofessionalattributes(asopposedto

clinicalknowledgeandskills)thatareexpectedintheroleofaFoundationYearOne(FY1)doctor.Theresultswillbeusedtodeterminethetargetdomains(andtestspecification)fortheSJTwhichwillbeusedalongsideameasureofeducationalattainment(EducationalPerformanceMeasurement)forselectiontotheFoundationProgramme.

1.2 Asystematic,multimethodjobanalysis,whichincorporatedaliteraturereview,semistructuredcriticalincidentinterviewsandobservations,wascarriedout.Thistriangulationapproachwasus