Dr HELEN CHURCH Helen.Church@nottingham.ac.uk
Clinical Assistant Professor
Applying sport psychology to improve clinical performance
Church, Helen R.; Rumbold, James L.; Sandars, John
Authors
James L. Rumbold
John Sandars
Abstract
Preparedness for practice has become an international theme within Medical Education: for healthcare systems to maintain their highest clinical standards, junior doctors must “hit the ground running” on beginning work. Despite demonstrating logical, structured assessment and management plans during their undergraduate examinations, many newly qualified doctors report difficulty in translating this theoretical knowledge into the real clinical environment. “Preparedness” must constitute more than the knowledge and skills acquired during medical school. Complexities of the clinical environment overwhelm some junior doctors, who acknowledge that they lack strategies to manage their anxieties, under-confidence and low self-efficacy. If uncontrolled, such negative emotions and behaviors may impede the delivery of time-critical treatment for acutely unwell patients and compound junior doctors’ self-doubt, thus impacting future patient encounters. Medical Education often seeks inspiration from other industries for potential solutions to challenges. To address “preparedness for practice,” this AMEE Guide highlights sport psychology: elite sportspeople train both physically and psychologically for their discipline. The latter promotes management of negative emotions, distractions and under-confidence, thus optimizing performance despite immense pressures of career-defining moments. Similar techniques might allow junior doctors to optimize patient care, especially within stressful situations. This AMEE Guide introduces the novel conceptual model, PERFORM, which targets the challenges faced by junior doctors on graduation. The model applies pre-performance routines from sport psychology with the self-regulatory processes of metacognition to the clinical context. This model could potentially equip junior doctors, and other healthcare professionals facing similar challenges, with strategies to optimize clinical care under the most difficult circumstances.
Citation
Church, H. R., Rumbold, J. L., & Sandars, J. (2017). Applying sport psychology to improve clinical performance. Medical Teacher, 39(12), 1205-1213. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2017.1359523
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 21, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 8, 2017 |
Publication Date | Dec 2, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Apr 21, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 2, 2020 |
Journal | Medical Teacher |
Print ISSN | 0142-159X |
Electronic ISSN | 1466-187X |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 39 |
Issue | 12 |
Pages | 1205-1213 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2017.1359523 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4322325 |
Publisher URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2017.1359523 |
Additional Information | Peer Review Statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope.; Aim & Scope: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=imte20 |
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