Whilst 50% of child protection workers across much of Europe and the affluent 'West' leave after 2 years, many stay and develop substantial professional careers. This paper discusses research in Italy, Sweden and England examining what factors explain 'remaining' for more than 3 years in this stressful job. Underpinned by a hermeneutic epistemology, qualitative interviews were undertaken and subject to an interpretative thematic analysis. The findings proved to be complex and multi-layered and this paper presents an overview of these. The theoretical framework for the project mainly drew on organizations and resilience, and the initial sections of the paper consider how formulations of resilience as contextual and relational can elucidate professional sustainability. Organisational issues are considered, including the impact of work management, of supervision and of allocation in different national contexts. The paper also focuses on the role of friendships and informal support at work. Threaded through these established themes are more, perhaps surprising, concepts: e.g. creativity, power, reflexive spaces and interpersonal relations as explanatory of remaining in child protection work.
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KEYWORDSPrimary-care group practice; Generalist ultrasonographer; Educational and training courses.Abstract Reorganization of the community healthcare system and the growing presence of group practices in the field of general medicine have increased the demands placed on primary-care medicine, in terms of the skills required and the level of responsibility. Satisfying the need for rapid, effective primary-care solutions to the health problems of citizens is easier thanks to technological and medical advances that provide high level equipment at costs within the reach of general practitioners (GPs). In the near future, trained GPs equipped with appropriate diagnostic scanners will be able to handle up to 40% of the requests of ultrasound examinations of each primary-care group (each PCG includes approximately 15,000e20,000 citizens). The Italian Federation of General Practitioners (Federazione Italiana dei Medici di Medicina Generale e FIMMG) and its Scientific Society, METIS, have organized national courses for those GPs who wish to become generalist ultrasonographers, in a joint effort with the two most important Italian scientific societies of imaging, the Italian Society of Ultrasonology in Medicine and Biology and the Italian Society of Medical Radiology.Sommario Vengono descritti i cambiamenti organizzativi che ha affrontato negli ultimi anni la Medicina Generale e il ruolo e le potenzialità che potrebbe avere l'ecografia negli studi dei Medici di Medicina Generale (MMG) migliorando l'iter diagnostico-terapeutico di molte patologie.Vengono analizzate la quantità, la distribuzione dell'offerta di ecografie sul territorio e l'appropriatezza della richiesta attuale.Viene presentato il progetto formativo Ecografia Generalista METIS e FIMMG e SIUMB il cui obiettivo è la formazione di Ecografisti Generalisti di supporto alla attività delle strutture territoriali di cure primarie (UMG, NCP case della Salute ecc.) e i risultati attesi dalla introduzione dell'ecografia. ª
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