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Exploring Complexity in Out-of-Hospital Clinical Supervision Using Rich Pictures Cover

Exploring Complexity in Out-of-Hospital Clinical Supervision Using Rich Pictures

Open Access
|Nov 2025

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Table 1

Participant characteristics.

TRAINEES
AGE (YEARS)GENDERYEAR OF RESIDENCY TRAININGEXPERIENCE AS PHYSICIAN BEFORE ENTERING RESIDENCY TRAINING (YEARS)
ECM-T130Female1st3
ECM-T231Female3rd5
ECM-T327Female3rd0.8
ECM-T426Female1st1.3
ECM-T536Male2nd2.6
ECM-T640Female1st14
GP-T129Female3rd2.5
GP-T230Female1st1.9
SUPERVISORS
AGE (YEARS)GENDEREXPERIENCE IN ECM/GP (YEARS)EXPERIENCE AS SUPERVISOR (NO. RESIDENTS SUPERVISED)
ECM-S147Female193
ECM-S244Female123
ECM-S351Male83
ECM-S458Male>2515
ECM-S550Female175
ECM-S650Female124
GP-S144Male113
GP-S239Female72
GP-S355Male2617

[i] ECM = Elderly Care Medicine

GP = General Practice

T = Trainee

S = Supervisor

Table 2

Themes.

THEMES RELATED TO COMPLEXITYLEVELCHARACTERISTICSEXAMPLES OF IMAGES IN RICH PICTURES
Intersystemic factorsMacroMultiple stakeholders across different systems (e.g. hospital care, mental care, home care etc.), their relations and reciprocal influence, transitionsA multitude of (stick) figures depicting patients, family, healthcare professionals, arrows, vehicles, buildings, institutions
Human interactionMesoMultiple interests and perspectives, diversity, emotions, communicationTelephones, computers, depicted emotions, question marks, thinking and talking balloons, symbols e.g. crosses and lightning
Work experienceMicroMedical complexity, multimorbidity, time pressureInternal organs, medication, syringes, medical devices, clocks, calendars
Trainee-supervisor relationshipCoaching of trainees by supervisors, trainees receiving guidance from supervisors(Stick) figures depicting trainee and supervisor
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Figure 1

RP by ECM-T4 depicting the patient in different systems and different interactions between them.

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Figure 2

RP by GP-T1 with different languages depicted in text balloons.

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Figure 3

Cutout of RP of supervision situation by ECM-S3.

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Figure 4

Cutout of RP of trainee-supervisor relationship by ECM-T2.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tz2fxh68 | Journal eISSN: 2212-277X
Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 30, 2024
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Accepted on: May 28, 2025
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Published on: Nov 12, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2025 Florence M. den Boer, Nelleke Noeverman-Poel, Esther Helmich, Martine C. de Bruijne, Nynke van Dijk, Marianne Mak-van der Vossen, Martin Smalbrugge, published by Ubiquity Press
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