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Abstract
Background: Internal Medicine (IM) residents are required to perform bedside procedures for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Residents’ experiences with procedures vary widely, for unclear reasons.
Objective: To explore IM residents’ experiences with performing bedside procedures and to identify barriers and facilitators to obtaining sufficient experience.
Methods: Using an inductive, thematic approach, we conducted five individual semi-structured interviews and one focus group with seven IM residents (12 residents in total) during the 2017-2018 academic year at a Canadian tertiary care centre. We used iterative, open-ended questions to elicit residents’ experiences, and barriers and facilitators, to performing bedside procedures. Transcripts were analyzed for themes using Braun and Clarke’s method.
Results: We identified four themes 1) Patient-specific factors such as body habitus and procedure urgency; 2) Systems factors such as time constraints and accessibility of materials; 3) Faculty factors including availability to supervise, comfort level, and referral preferences, and 4) Resident-specific factors including preparation, prior experiences, and confidence. Some residents expressed procedure-related anxiety and avoidance.
Conclusion: Educational interventions aimed to improve procedural efficiency and ensure availability of supervisors may help facilitate residents to perform procedures, yet may not address procedure-related anxiety. Further study is required to understand better how procedure-averse residents can gain confidence to seek out procedures.
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Contexte : Les résidents en médecine interne (MI) sont amenés à effectuer des procédures au chevet du patient à des fins diagnostiques et thérapeutiques. Les expériences des résidents en lien avec ces procédures varient considérablement, et ce sans raison évidente.
Objectif : Explorer les expériences des résidents en MI lors des procédures effectuées au chevet du patient et identifier les facteurs qui entravent ou, au contraire, facilitent l’acquisition d’une expérience suffisante.
Méthodes : En utilisant une approche inductive et thématique, nous avons mené cinq entrevues individuelles semi-structurées et un groupe de discussion avec sept résidents de MI (12 résidents au total) dans un centre de soins tertiaires canadien au cours de l’année universitaire 2017-2018. Nous avons utilisé des questions ouvertes itératives pour recueillir les expériences des résidents lors des procédures faites au chevet du patient, ainsi qu’identifier les obstacles et les facilitateurs de ces interventions. Les transcriptions d’entrevues ont été analysées pour identifier les thèmes émergents selon la méthode de Braun et Clarke.
Résultats : Nous avons relevé quatre thèmes : 1) les facteurs spécifiques aux patients comme la morphologie du patient et l’urgence de la procédure; 2) les facteurs systémiques comme les contraintes de temps et l’accessibilité du matériel; 3) les facteurs liés corps professoral, notamment leur disponibilité pour superviser, leur niveau de confort et leur propension à orienter certaines procédures vers d’autres collègues; et 4) les facteurs spécifiques aux résidents, à savoir la préparation, les expériences antérieures et la confiance. Certains résidents ont exprimé vivre de l’anxiété face aux procédures et de l’évitement.
Conclusion : Les initiatives éducatives visant à améliorer l’efficacité des procédures et à assurer la disponibilité de superviseurs peuvent faciliter leur réalisation par les résidents, mais elles peuvent ne pas atténuer l’anxiété reliée aux procédures. Des études supplémentaires sont nécessaires pour mieux comprendre comment accroître la confiance des résidents qui sont réticents face aux procédures au chevet du patient.
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