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标题：Overcoming challenges of PhD supervision in a clinical setting
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作者：Anna-Clara Spetz Holm ; Per-Anders Forstorp ; Mats Hammar 等
期刊名称：MedEdPublish
电子版ISSN：2312-7996
出版年度：2021
卷号：10
期号：1
页码：1-11
DOI：10.15694/mep.2021.000042.1
出版社：Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
摘要：Introduction: Clinical settings, i.e. healthcare facilities or hospitals affiliated with universities are now common sites for doctorate supervision (PhD supervision). This study aimed to identify challenges and opportunities in a clinical setting from the perspective of participants in a university course for supervisors. Methods: Twenty-one PhDs from the medical faculty, Linköping University, who participated in one course on supervision arranged by the university during the period 2016-2018 agreed to have their papers on PhD student supervision reviewed. From these papers, aims and suggestions for enhanced supervision were collected. Results: We identified several supervision issues specific to the healthcare and hospital-based contexts. These include the demands on supervisors to combine clinical and supervisory roles, the demand to create an academic environment integrated in the clinical context, the challenges of academic medical/scientific writing, and career issues for both PhD students and supervisors already established in their healthcare professions. Discussion and conclusion: We identified that researchers who are going to be supervisors and who combine clinical and supervisory roles report significant challenges with supervision. To better support their PhD students and to create an academic environment integrated in the clinical setting the postgraduate supervisor training programmes should be tailored to the needs of these supervisors.