Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus
Globally, the call for Family-Friendly (FF) workplaces is loud and clear. However, this call is inaudible in medical workplaces, despite both well-established benefits of FF workplaces across businesses and well-known effects of work–family conflict on the well-being and practice of doctors. We aime...
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| author | Carmelle Peisah Adrianna Sheppard Susan Mary Benbow Alison Loughran-Fowlds Susan Grayson Jenny E. Gunton Anuradha Kataria Rosalyn Lai Kiran Lele Carolyn Quadrio Danette Wright Loyola McLean |
| author_facet | Carmelle Peisah Adrianna Sheppard Susan Mary Benbow Alison Loughran-Fowlds Susan Grayson Jenny E. Gunton Anuradha Kataria Rosalyn Lai Kiran Lele Carolyn Quadrio Danette Wright Loyola McLean |
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| description | Globally, the call for Family-Friendly (FF) workplaces is loud and clear. However, this call is inaudible in medical workplaces, despite both well-established benefits of FF workplaces across businesses and well-known effects of work–family conflict on the well-being and practice of doctors. We aimed to use the Delphi consensus methodology to: (i) operationalise the Family-Friendly medical workplace and (ii) develop a Family-Friendly Self-Audit tool for medical workplaces. The expert medical Delphi panel was deliberatively recruited to capture a breadth of professional, personal, and academic expertise, diversity of age (35–81), life stage, family contexts and lived experience of dual commitments to work and family, and diversity of work settings and positions. Results reflected the inclusive and dynamic nature of the doctor’s family and the need to adopt a family life cycle approach to FF medical workplaces. Key processes for implementation include holding firms to zero discrimination; flexibility and openness to dialogue and feedback; and a mutual commitment between the doctor and the department lead to best meet the doctor’s individualised needs while still ensuring optimal patient care and team support and cohesion. We hypothesise that the Department Head may be the key to implementation but recognise the workforce constraints to realising these aspirational systemic shifts. It is time we acknowledge that doctors have families, to narrow the gap between identifying as a partner, mother, father, daughter, son, grandparent, and identifying as a doctor. We affirm the right to be both good doctors and good family members. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dc96b63cec984b6196a503f3b20be9a32023-11-18T10:37:37ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322023-06-011112167910.3390/healthcare11121679Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi ConsensusCarmelle Peisah0Adrianna Sheppard1Susan Mary Benbow2Alison Loughran-Fowlds3Susan Grayson4Jenny E. Gunton5Anuradha Kataria6Rosalyn Lai7Kiran Lele8Carolyn Quadrio9Danette Wright10Loyola McLean11Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, AustraliaWestmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2145, AustraliaCentre for Ageing and Mental Health, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Chester, Chester CH1 4BJ, UKBlacktown Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2148, AustraliaWestmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2145, AustraliaFaculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, AustraliaFaculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, AustraliaDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, AustraliaFaculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, AustraliaDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, AustraliaBlacktown Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2148, AustraliaFaculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, AustraliaGlobally, the call for Family-Friendly (FF) workplaces is loud and clear. However, this call is inaudible in medical workplaces, despite both well-established benefits of FF workplaces across businesses and well-known effects of work–family conflict on the well-being and practice of doctors. We aimed to use the Delphi consensus methodology to: (i) operationalise the Family-Friendly medical workplace and (ii) develop a Family-Friendly Self-Audit tool for medical workplaces. The expert medical Delphi panel was deliberatively recruited to capture a breadth of professional, personal, and academic expertise, diversity of age (35–81), life stage, family contexts and lived experience of dual commitments to work and family, and diversity of work settings and positions. Results reflected the inclusive and dynamic nature of the doctor’s family and the need to adopt a family life cycle approach to FF medical workplaces. Key processes for implementation include holding firms to zero discrimination; flexibility and openness to dialogue and feedback; and a mutual commitment between the doctor and the department lead to best meet the doctor’s individualised needs while still ensuring optimal patient care and team support and cohesion. We hypothesise that the Department Head may be the key to implementation but recognise the workforce constraints to realising these aspirational systemic shifts. It is time we acknowledge that doctors have families, to narrow the gap between identifying as a partner, mother, father, daughter, son, grandparent, and identifying as a doctor. We affirm the right to be both good doctors and good family members.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/11/12/1679family-friendlymedical workplacedoctors’ heathphysicians’ healthoccupational stresswork–family conflict |
| spellingShingle | Carmelle Peisah Adrianna Sheppard Susan Mary Benbow Alison Loughran-Fowlds Susan Grayson Jenny E. Gunton Anuradha Kataria Rosalyn Lai Kiran Lele Carolyn Quadrio Danette Wright Loyola McLean Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus Healthcare family-friendly medical workplace doctors’ heath physicians’ health occupational stress work–family conflict |
| title | Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus |
| title_full | Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus |
| title_fullStr | Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus |
| title_full_unstemmed | Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus |
| title_short | Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus |
| title_sort | operationalising the family friendly medical workplace and the development of fam med a family friendly self audit tool for medical systems a delphi consensus |
| topic | family-friendly medical workplace doctors’ heath physicians’ health occupational stress work–family conflict |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/11/12/1679 |
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