Clinical development plan training

In summary, currerrt trairring and education create another barrier to improving safety culture because they do not support the development of shared norms and behaviours across different professional groups. Rather they create professional silos. The net effect of the current training approach is that doctors and nurses carmot walk in each other s shoes. Handovers, where multi-disciplinary team input is needed to commimicate safety information across healthcare interfaces, illustrate this issue very well. All too often, nurses seek nursing information and doctors want to hand over a clinical management plan in which key information required by the nurses is not included. 

Medical training doesn t have to be a conveyor belt, with your life neatly planned out. Take time out, develop yourself personally. Find out what your deanery offers in terms of OOPEs, etc. Although MDBS, then training, RCPsych Membership and even consultant status are fantastic achievements in their own right, it s about the journey, not the destination. Fulfilment and satisfaction aren t always the same as clinical and academic accolades. 

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