1. Can the Baby Boomers Teach the Current Generation?
Dr Mike Masding
Head of Wessex Foundation School
Consultant Physician, Poole Hospital

2. What do we mean by generations?

3. Generations Baby Boomers 1946-1964 Generation X 1965-1984
Generation Y

4. Generations Baby Boomers 1946-1964 Consultants / GPs
Generation X
Consultants/GPs/Some juniors
Generation Y
Junior doctors

5. Baby Boomers / Generation X
Experienced
Respect hierarchy
Used to competition
Loyal to:
Career
Organisation
Profession

6. Generation Y / Millenials / Generation Me
Assertive
High expectations
Used to shallow hierarchies
Open & emotional
Internet generation
?Anxiety/depression

7. Generation Y / Millenials / Generation Me

8. Generation Y / Millenials / Generation Me

9. Some caveats
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

10. Hesiod – in 700BC
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

11. George Orwell
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it

12. FY1s ……..
Undertaking complex emergency treatment with poor supervision
Large administrative burden
Excluded from clinical meetings
Little time for study or reflection

13. PRHO jobs in 1964
Undertaking complex emergency treatment with poor supervision
Large administrative burden
Excluded from clinical meetings
Little time for study or reflection
Hutton et al, Lancet, 1964

14. FY1 jobs ……. ‘work pressure’ ‘link communication person’
‘glorified ward clerk’
‘dustbin’

15. PRHO jobs in 1991 ‘work pressure’ ‘link communication person’
‘glorified ward clerk’
‘dustbin’
Dowling & Barrett, Bristol, 1991

16. Beware Catastrophising
PRHOs
New Deal
Calman SpRs
MMC
New junior doctor contract
New consultant contract…?

17. Some caveats What generations think of each other (Orwell etc)
Being a junior doctor (‘plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’)
It’s the end of the world…

18. Can the Baby Boomers teach the current generation?
‘In my day…’
Humiliation
‘Apprenticeship’
HOW NOT TO DO IT!!!

19. Can the Baby Boomers teach the current generation?
Be explicit in your instructions
THAT’S WHAT INDUCTION SHOULD BE FOR!
Learn from workplace experience
THROUGH PROFESSIONAL CONVERSATIONS, NOT ‘OSMOSIS’
Lots of Feedback
USE ASSESSMENTS, USE THE E-PORTFOLIO OR JUST GIVE FEEDBACK
YES!!!