First year junior doctors and medical uncertainty - a qualitative study.
Eirik Hugaas OfstadKaroline AsdalBruno NightingalePaul K HanTrine Ammentorp GregersenPal GulbrandsenPublished in: Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke (2023)
The first year junior doctors struggled with the inherent uncertainty of medicine and felt a marked sense of insecurity, particularly at the start of their training period. How the doctors were welcomed in the workplace and the feedback they were given were important factors. Their undergraduate medical education had not sufficiently prepared the first year junior doctors for how to deal with medical uncertainty in clinical practice.