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Occupational Medicine Advance Access originally published online on March 29, 2005
Occupational Medicine 2005 55(3):227-233; doi:10.1093/occmed/kqi030
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J. P. Owen, Army Medical Directorate. © Crown Copyright 2005. Reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

A survey of the provision of educational supervision in occupational medicine in the Armed Forces

J. P. Owen

Army Medical Directorate, Former Army Staff College, Slim Road, Camberley GU15 4NP, UK

Objective The aim of this study was to assess whether balanced educational supervision was being provided for occupational medicine (OM) specialist registrars (SpRs) in the Armed Forces and to consider the effectiveness of current supervision.

Methods Anonymized postal questionnaires, using Likert five-point response scales, were sent to Service OM SpRs and their educational supervisors (Ed Sup) to assess the degree of understanding of the purpose, effectiveness and organization of the educational supervision being provided.

Results Completed questionnaires were returned from 35 (92%) specialists and 14 (61%) SpRs. Less than a third of the specialists were involved as Ed Sup and only three (11%) had undergone any formal medical education training. There was an agreement about the purpose and effectiveness of educational supervision between both the groups, though there appeared to be a bias towards providing supportive functions with patient management and educational components scoring less highly.

Conclusions A high response rate enabled an accurate assessment of OM supervision practices in the Armed Forces to be made. There was agreement over the relative effectiveness, importance and coverage of educational supervision, though this was being provided by a relatively small group of OM specialists, few of whom had undertaken any formal medical education training. The supervision provided also appeared to be biased towards providing supportive functions rather than patient management and educational components of training, which may result in an unbalanced training for the SpRs. Having assessed the relatively close-knit service OM community, there would be value in seeing whether similar patterns prevail in the wider OM community.

Keywords      Educational supervision; occupational medicine training

Correspondence to: J. P. Owen, Army Medical Directorate, Former Army Staff College, Slim Road, Camberley GU15 4NP, UK. Tel: +44 1252 412648; e-mail: jp.owen{at}tiscali.co.uk


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