The medical registrar’s experience of acute medicine on call: an ethnographic study

The research methodology was ethnography. Two researchers were involved in the data collection – a GP trainee and a university researcher. Three trusts within the north of England were used for recruitment. Observations of eight registrars took place June 2014 – February 2015 during acute on-call shifts. A total of 86.5 hours of observation data was collected. Following the shifts, interviews were conducted with participants to reflect on the observations made. Results were inputted into NVivo and coded to identify themes.