Firm (medicine)

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The firm is a medical team, typically seen in apprenticeship style training in hospital settings. After 2005 in the UK, when trainees started rotating more regularly under the Modernising Medical Careers program, the system of firms in the UK declined. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Medical firm at the bedside (Physician examining a patient at bedside) (4645106158).jpg
Medical firm at the bedside

References

  1. ↑ Rimmer, Abi (10 June 2019). "The firm: does it hold the answers to teamworking and morale?" . BMJ. 365: l4105. doi:10.1136/bmj.l4105. ISSN   0959-8138.
  2. ↑ Timm, Anja (February 2013). "The demise of the firm – What is happening to apprenticeship learning?: Report on a medical education research project conducted in 2009" (PDF). University of Southampton. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2024.
  3. ↑ Raine, Clinical Fellow and Honorary Registrar Tim; Raine, Tim; Dawson, James; Sanders, Stephan; Eccles, Simon; Eccles, Senior House Officer in Accident and Emergency Simon (2014). "The medical team". Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme. Oxford University Press. p. 66. ISBN   978-0-19-968381-9.
  4. ↑ Turner-Warwick, Margaret (2005). "6. Clinical training". Living Medicine: Recollections and Reflections. Royal College of Physicians. p. 48. ISBN   978-1-86016-248-0.


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