TITLE

Mutual learning between general practitioners with community hospital beds and consultants in Scotland

AUTHOR(S)

Greig, Gail

PUB. DATE

November 2004

SOURCE

Work Based Learning in Primary Care;Nov2004, Vol. 2 Issue 4, p338

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on mutual learning opportunities for general practitioners (GPs) with inpatient beds in community hospitals and their consultant colleagues in secondary or tertiary care, in the context of the Scottish healthcare policy of integration. The nature of the relationship between GPs with inpatient beds in three Scottish regions and their consultant colleagues was examined using qualitative research methods, specifically a modified case study approach. The main findings of the study revealed an apparently divided profession. This view was expressed when discussing the relationship between GPs and consultants in the abstract (viewed as 'us and them'). Paradoxically, a much more positive view was expressed when discussing personal experiences of interaction between GPs and consultants. There was a common desire among the doctors interviewed for. the relationship to become more complementary than competitive, based on the equally necessary forms of specialised knowledge characteristic of general practice and hospital medicine (regarded as clinical and biomedical knowledge respectively). Examples of mutual work based learning are discussed. The paper contributes to the wider debate on integration and learning by providing some empirical evidence of the nature of these relationships, to form the basis for future research into how to improve mutual understanding, in order to enhance care for mutual patients.

ACCESSION #

15380330

Tags: LEARNING;  PHYSICIANS (General practice);  MUTUALISM;  HOSPITAL beds;  CONSULTANTS;  MEDICAL care

 

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