Satisfaction & Wellbeing in Anaesthetic Training

The SWeAT study was an independent, trainee-led collaboration between STAR and our equivalent groups in the Peninsula (SWARM) and Wales (WAAREN) Deaneries. It was supported with funding from the NIAA & AAGBI and we are very proud to announce that it is now Health Research Authority approved, and eligible for Clinical Research Network Portfolio status.

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This was a fantastic boost to the project, which will combine quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the vitally important issues of professional satisfaction, stress, and burnout syndrome amongst Anaesthetic and ICM trainees.

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Phase one of data collection started on Monday 20th February 2017, with a short (approx. 10 minute), confidential questionnaire emailed to all non-consultant/non-SAS grade Anaesthetists and Intensivists working in the Severn, Wessex and Wales Deaneries.

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It was vitally important that as many trainees as possible have their say.

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The second phase took the form of semi-structured confidential interviews with an independent researcher from the University of Bath. Although responses to the initial questionnaire were completely anonymous (if preferred), a sample of those trainees who included a method of contact were approached to take part.

 

Results of this landmark study were released in 2 separate papers in Anaesthesia Journal in May 2019.

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