Table 3.
Selected items and proportion of respondents that selected ‘agree’ and ‘strongly agree’ or ‘often’ and ‘very often’ from the questionnaire survey
| Green items are ‘positive items’ where agreement is interpreted as favourable thus the higher proportion the better experience Red items are ‘negative items’ where disagreement is interpreted as favourable thus the lower proportion the better experience |
Kenya (n=358) | Uganda (n=487) | ||
| Well-being | Q17 | I get satisfaction from being able to help people. | 86% | 85% |
| Q20 | My ability to keep up with clinical techniques and protocols makes me feel pleased. | 74% | 84% | |
| Q22 | I believe I can make a difference through my work. | 77% | 86% | |
| Q23 | I am proud of what I can do to help as a medical intern. | 82% | 87% | |
| Q1 | I feel that I am unable to balance my work and personal life during my internship. | 62% | 49% | |
| Q2 | I feel nervous and/or stressed because of my internship work. | 59% | 38% | |
| Q8 | I am angered because of things that were outside of my control. | 50% | 27% | |
| Q13 | I feel tired or having little energy during my internship. | 52% | 27% | |
| Q29 | I feel worn out because of my work as a medical intern. | 55% | 39% | |
| Q30 | I feel overwhelmed because my case workload seems endless during the internship. | 56% | 42% | |
| Educational environment | Q39 | I have good clinical supervision at all times during my internship. | 57% | 66% |
| Q46 | I have enough clinical learning opportunities for my needs during the internship period. | 62% | 83% | |
| Q51 | I have opportunities to acquire the appropriate practical procedures for clinical practice during my internship. | 76% | 81% | |
| Q52 | My internship training makes me feel ready to be an independent medical practitioner. | 77% | 88% | |
| Q56 | There is an informative and comprehensive internship guideline, log book or clinical diary. | 82% | 45% | |
| Q58 | I feel part of a team working here. | 71% | 88% | |
| Q61 | I have good collaboration with other medical practitioners, interns and clinical staff. | 84% | 88% | |
| Q54 | I am pre-occupied with administrative work that impeded my ability to learn. | 18% | 17% | |
| Work condition and environment | Q65 | My work hours are appropriate during my internship. | 19% | 35% |
| Q66 | My workload is reasonable during my internship. | 22% | 32% | |
| Q71 | There is a no-blame culture in my internship hospital. | 23% | 31% | |
| Q85 | The internship hospital has good quality accommodation for me when on call. | 35% | 48% | |
| Q86 | There are adequate catering services provided by the internship hospital when I am on call. | 17% | 34% | |
| Q87 | The internship hospital has good internet connection for my study and work need. | 23% | 37% | |
| Q88 | The internship hospital has adequate supply of diagnostics, equipment and medication for my study and work need. | 34% | 43% | |
| Q67 | I am bleeped or called concerning the patients inappropriately during my internship. | 51% | 43% | |
| Q68 | I have to perform inappropriate tasks during my internship. | 39% | 29% | |
| Q69 | There is gender discrimination in my internship hospital. | 16% | 11% | |
| Q70 | There are other forms of discrimination (eg, ethnicity, religion, tribe, disability) in my internship hospital. | 27% | 15% | |
| Q81 | I get bullied or victimised within my internship hospital. | 27% | 13% | |
Data are presented as the proportion of respondents that chose ‘agree’ and ‘strongly agree’ or ‘often’ and ‘very often’. Items presented here are those of particular interest (have a high or low proportion, with difference between Kenya and Uganda or could be triangulated with qualitative data) and full results are shown in online supplemental appendix 5.