TY - JOUR
T1 - Ten tips for foundation doctors when making inpatient referrals to surgical specialties
AU - Ong, Elena Ying Ern
AU - Ong, Daniel Ying Yao
AU - Waduud, Mohammed Abdul
AU - Choong, Wen Ling
N1 - © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
PY - 2020/3/23
Y1 - 2020/3/23
N2 - Making referrals to another specialty is an underemphasised skill in the undergraduate medical curriculum. As a result, many new foundation doctors find themselves ill-equipped to make effective referrals to other specialties as part of their day-to-day responsibilities. This can often be frustrating to the foundation doctor, the specialist and contribute to critical delays in patient care. Surgical registrars are required to triage patients (for urgent review or even to take to theatre) often under time and high patient volume pressures. As such, it is imperative for foundation doctors to make referrals as efficiently as possible to facilitate surgical specialty decision making and, ultimately, to expedite medical care to patients. In this article, we describe 10 tips for the foundation doctor in making inpatient referrals to surgical specialties.
AB - Making referrals to another specialty is an underemphasised skill in the undergraduate medical curriculum. As a result, many new foundation doctors find themselves ill-equipped to make effective referrals to other specialties as part of their day-to-day responsibilities. This can often be frustrating to the foundation doctor, the specialist and contribute to critical delays in patient care. Surgical registrars are required to triage patients (for urgent review or even to take to theatre) often under time and high patient volume pressures. As such, it is imperative for foundation doctors to make referrals as efficiently as possible to facilitate surgical specialty decision making and, ultimately, to expedite medical care to patients. In this article, we describe 10 tips for the foundation doctor in making inpatient referrals to surgical specialties.
KW - medical education & training
KW - neurosurgery
KW - orthopaedic & trauma surgery
KW - surgery
KW - urology
KW - vascular surgery
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U2 - 10.1136/postgradmedj-2019-137346
DO - 10.1136/postgradmedj-2019-137346
M3 - Article
C2 - 32001486
SN - 1469-0756
VL - 96
SP - 228
EP - 231
JO - Postgraduate Medical Journal
JF - Postgraduate Medical Journal
IS - 1134
ER -