Report on Postgraduate Training Event in Science Education Writing

In-training assessment developments in postgraduate education in Europe.

AIM This paper reviews changes that are underway in postgraduate medical education in various European countries. Training in the workplace is a very effective way of learning, but it has many imperfections. Changes in in-training assessment are proposed to remedy some of these. ASSESSMENT TOOLS The focus is on a set of assessment tools for performance in authentic work-based contexts. These ...

Changes in postgraduate medical education and training in clinical radiology

Postgraduate medical education and training in many specialties, including Clinical Radiology, is undergoing major changes. In part this is to ensure that shorter training periods maximise the learning opportunities but it is also to bring medical education in line with broader educational theory. Learning outcomes need to be defined so that there is no doubt what knowledge, skills, attitudes a...

Postgraduate medical education and specialist training in Singapore.

The Singapore Medical School celebrates its Centenary in 2005. This historical review is presented on Singapore's postgraduate medical education and specialist training programmes. The special informal role of the Alumni Association and its members during the early years and soon after World War II is highlighted. Postgraduate education and specialist training was more formalised only during th...

Curriculum for the foundation years in postgraduate education and training.

Postgraduate medical education: residents rating the quality of their training.

OBJECTIVE To determine the residents' rating of the quality of their residency training by measuring their level of satisfaction with the various educational attributes of their training. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Medical Education (DME), Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, from September to November 2008. METHODOL...