To create an independent and completely anonymous way for junior doctors (RMO's) working in New Zealand to report their workplace experiences so that we can share knowledge to help our friends and colleagues find safe and supportive work environments that suit them.
Collectively this also give us the power to ask for improvement in workplaces that haven't been supportive, by voting with our feet.
In order to protect the individuals coming forward, the dates worked and number of respondents will remain hidden; only an overall score, generated from all responses, will be displayed on the website, along with whether the majority answered yes or no to whether or not they would work there again.
The more people filling in the survey, hopefully, the more accurate a representation we will have of any given department. As departments can change over time, as this goes on, only the more recent data will be shown on the website.
The plan will be to update the results in time for job applications and for the internal job preferences for the next year. Currently, the results include registrars and house officers - if we get enough respondents, and there seems to be a difference in their experience within the departments, the results may be separated.
Often when we work in difficult deparment dynamics, we don't feel empowered to stand up for ourselves. Amongst junior doctors there is a genuiene fear of repercussions to their career and a fear of worsening workplace dynamics if they were to report to human resources. So many choose to stick it out and move on to hopefully better placements. However, this leaves the problem for the next RMO rotating into the department, and having had this experiences too often it's time to try a new way to improve our workplaces and celebrate the department already creating supportive workplaces.