Predictors of Poor Professional Performance in Junior Medical Staff

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/107416

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Medical practitioner performance is one significant risk factor for adverse health outcomes. Medical practitioner stress has implications for practitioner performance. Among new medical graduates working in the public hospital system environmental stressors such as long working hours have traditionally been blamed as the source of stress leading to reduced performance and adverse health outcomes. However, correction of environmental stresses does not necessarily reduce junior doctors stress or improve performance, implying that additional personal factors predict for poor assessed performance. Such factors may include burnout, depression, anxiety and fixed personality traits. This project will allow a detailed analysis of causal relationships between fixed personality traits, induced stress states, and external life stresses. The relationship of each of these to performance will also be determined.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2000

End Date: 01-01-2002

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $205,902.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Economics of education

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Doctors' Mental Health | Performance | Performance in new medical graduates | Personality, Stress and Burnout | Personality, burnout, depression, anxiety and alexithymia | Relationship between stress and performance

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