Forms of positive development that increase feelings of self-worth | Illustrative quote |
Increased self-worth | ‘… It increases your confidence, it makes you want to do it again and it’s also an ego thing, it makes you want to hear it again’. (ID 2) |
Increased confidence | ‘He made a comment that he didn’t feel he was having to work very hard or think very hard, and that made me feel good and the next time I did that procedure I was more confident going into the operation’. (ID 12) |
Positive reinforcement | ‘I think I am quite, what’s the word, not bashful but I don’t think of myself as anything particularly special. I think of myself as a good doctor, I try to be as good as I can. I think I am just as what should be expected of me, do you know what I mean. I don’t think anything I do is above and beyond what I should be doing so it is nice to get the positive feedback because actually you think, “maybe I am doing alright”’. (ID 6) |
How trainees want to be perceived as trainers themselves | ‘…I think it’s shaped a little bit of how I train, it’s implications and just taking people through simple things, appendixes and things, and trying to just, if there are problems just stay around and be calm and treat other people in the same way’. (ID 9) |
Empowerment | ‘… I’ve said this before - there are surgeons that I’ve trained with who I almost operate outside of what I thought I was capable of doing, we all have a vague idea of where we feel competent and we feel like “mm I’m not able to do this part of the operation”. I think there are surgeons who bring out the best in me to the point where I feel like “God I didn’t think I could do all that part of the operation” ’. (ID 7) |
ID, identification.