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FY1JobAnalysisReportImprovingSelectiontotheFoundationProgramme
WorkPsychologyGroupandtheUniversityofCambridge
ProfessorFionaPattersonVickiArcherDrMaireKerrinVictoriaCarrLouiseFaulkesPhillipaCoanDrDavidGood
FinalReportJuly2010
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AcknowledgementsThisprojectwasconductedby theWorkPsychologyGroup incollaborationwith theUniversityofCambridgeonbehalfof the ImprovingSelection to theFoundationProgrammeProjectGroup.TheISFP Project Group, Chaired by Professor Paul ONeill, includes representatives from fifteenorganisations: the Academy ofMedical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), the BritishMedical Association(BMA)MedicalStudentsCommittee,theConferenceofPostgraduateMedicalDeans(CoPMED),thefourUKDepartmentsofHealth, theGeneralMedicalCouncil (GMC), theMedicalSchoolsCouncil,theNorthern IrelandMedical andDental TrainingAgency (NIMDTA),NHS Education for Scotland(NES), NHS Employers (NHSE), the Scottish Board for Academic Medicine, the UK FoundationProgrammeOffice (UKFPO) and clinical tutors. The ISFP Project is funded by theDepartment ofHealth.
TheCodirectorsoftheprojecttodevelopaSituationalJudgementTestforISFPareProfessorFionaPattersonandDrDavidGood.Thecoreproject teamconsistedofProfessorFionaPatterson,VickiArcher, DrMaire Kerrin, Victoria Carr, Louise Faulkes and Phillipa Coan in conjunctionwith theMedicalSchoolsCouncilprojectteamincludingProfessorPaulONeill,ProfessorTonyWeetman,DrKatiePettySaphon,DrDenisShaughnessy,SiobhanFitzpatrickandAmyStringer.
TheprojectteamswouldliketothanktheCambridgeUniversityHospitalsNHSFoundationTrust,UniversityHospitalofSouthManchesterNHSFoundationTrustandNHSHighlandinScotlandforenablinginsightfulshadowingofFoundationdoctors.WeareespeciallygratefultostaffattheUKFPO,AoMRCandUKmedicalschoolsforfacilitatingtheresearch,andtotheindividualFoundationSchoolDirectorsandManagers,FoundationProgrammeDirectors,Foundationdoctors,MedicalSchoolEducationDeans,Consultantclinicaltutorsandpatientrepresentativeswhosharedtheirtimeandexpertise.WewouldliketoaddapersonalthankyoutoDrAlysBurns,EastofEnglandDeanery;DrIanCurran,LondonDeanery;LynneHobbs,Methods;ProfessorStephenPowis,RoyalFreeHampsteadNHSTrust;andDrKimWalker,NHSEducationforScotland,fortheircontributionstothisresearch.
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Contents1. ExecutiveSummary.........................................................................................................................1
2 Introduction....................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Purposeofthejobanalysis.....................................................................................................3
2.2 Structureofthisreport...........................................................................................................3
3 JobAnalysis.....................................................................................................................................4
3.1 Introduction............................................................................................................................4
3.2 Jobanalysisapproach.............................................................................................................4
3.3 Literaturereview.....................................................................................................................6
3.4 Semistructuredinterviews.....................................................................................................8
3.5 Observations(Shadowing)....................................................................................................11
3.6 Validationquestionnaire.......................................................................................................12
4 AnalysisoftheData......................................................................................................................14
4.1 Analysisstrategyfortheinterviews......................................................................................14
4.2 Creationofthetemplate......................................................................................................15
4.3 Analysisstrategyfortheobservations..................................................................................15
4.4 ValidationofProfessionalAttributesFramework.................................................................15
5. ResultsofJobAnalysis..................................................................................................................18
5.1 ProfessionalAttributesFramework......................................................................................18
5.2 Findingsfromtheliteraturereview......................................................................................18
5.3 Findingsfromtheinterviews................................................................................................29
5.4 Findingsfromobservations...................................................................................................32
5.5 Findingsfromvalidationquestionnaire................................................................................33
5.6 Summaryoffindings.............................................................................................................36
5.7 Mappingontoexistingmaterial...........................................................................................37
6.SituationalJudgementTestDesignSpecification..........................................................................41
6.1 SJTliteraturereview.............................................................................................................41
6.2 Purposeofthetest................................................................................................................42
6.3 TargetattributedomainsfortheSJT....................................................................................43
6.4 Context..................................................................................................................................47
6.5 Itemselectionmethodology.................................................................................................47
6.6 Responseformats.................................................................................................................48
6.7 Testlength............................................................................................................................49
6.8 Teststructure.......................................................................................................................49
6.9 Scoringkey...........................................................................................................................49
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6.10 Multipleforms......................................................................................................................50
7. SummaryandConclusions............................................................................................................51
8. References....................................................................................................................................52
Appendix1:LiteratureReviewSpecification&SearchStrategy..........................................................55
Appendix2:JobAnalysisParticipantBriefing.......................................................................................59
Appendix3:FY1DoctorJobAnalysisQuestions...................................................................................61
Appendix4:PatientRepresentativeBriefing........................................................................................63
Appendix5:ObservationObserveandRecordSheet..........................................................................65
Appendix6:FoundationYearOneDoctorProfessionalAttributesQuestionnaire..............................66
Appendix7:FoundationProgrammeCommencingAugust2010........................................................69
Appendix8:FY1LiteratureReviewTable.............................................................................................71
Appendix9:SituationalJudgementTestLiteratureReviewTable.....................................................83
Appendix10:ProjectTeamBiographies.............................................................................................104
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1. ExecutiveSummary1.1 Thepurposeofthejobanalysiswastodefinetheprofessionalattributes(asopposedto
clinicalknowledgeandskills)thatareexpectedintheroleofaFoundationYearOne(FY1)doctor.Theresultswillbeusedtodeterminethetargetdomains(andtestspecification)fortheSJTwhichwillbeusedalongsideameasureofeducationalattainment(EducationalPerformanceMeasurement)forselectiontotheFoundationProgramme.
1.2 Asystematic,multimethodjobanalysis,whichincorporatedaliteraturereview,semistructuredcriticalincidentinterviewsandobservations,wascarriedout.Thistriangulationapproachwasus
