A Countercyclical Training Programme for Canada

Special Programme for Research & Training

Postgraduate training in Canada.

In contrast to the United Kingdom, postgraduate medical training in Canada is entirely confined to university settings although it was not always so. Excellent reviews of the historical background have been published by Shephard' and Ruedy.2 Specialty intern and residency (the term used in North America for housestaff and registrar positions) training in Canada first became popular in the 1920s...

Emergency health training programme for Africa.

Auditing a clinical supervision training programme.

Nurses and service managers in a community trust were asked to evaluate a training course designed to help them implement the trust's clinical supervision policy. The audit identified several patterns of clinical supervision emerging within the trust. The author discusses the benefits of these to patients, staff and the organisation and draws some recommendations for nurses involved in implemen...

Clinician investigator training in Canada: a review.

PURPOSE The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada undertook a review of its Clinician Investigator Program (CIP), 13 years after launching the program in response to shortages in clinical investigators. The primary study goals were to determine the outcomes, impact, strengths and weaknesses of CIP. METHODS Focus groups and telephone interviews with current and past program direct...