Transition to clinical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study of young doctors' experiences in Brazil and Ireland.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore and compare the perspectives of junior doctors in Brazil and Ireland regarding transition and professional socialisation during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the purpose of identifying better ways to support doctors as they assume their new professional role.

Design

27 semistructured interviews. Transcripts were analysed using qualitative thematic analysis. Cruess' framework of professional socialisation in medicine supported the interpretation of these data.

Setting

Public health hospitals across four Brazilian states (Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Ceará, Paraíba) and County Cork in the South of Ireland.

Participants

Twenty-seven male and female medical junior doctors who had graduated between November 2019 and April 2020.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Montagna E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8460523 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature