Junior doctor-designed induction booklet to improve future junior doctor experience in a new post

Starting your rotation as a junior doctor on an unfamiliar ward can be challenging, regardless of your grade. There is evidence showing increased mortality of 4.3–12% and 0.3–7.2% longer lengths of stay around changeover dates.1 High quality of induction was one of the recommendations by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges for safe trainee changeover.2 Our project by a team of junior doctors was aimed at improving the initial experience of the future junior doctors on the same ward at a university hospital. The tool used was an induction booklet that the doctors could refer to from the first day and re-refer to it as …