BACKGROUND Clinical supervision and feedback are important for the development of competency in junior doctors. This study aimed to determine the adequacy of supervision of junior medical staff in Australian emergency departments (EDs) and perceived feedback provided. METHODS Semi-structured telephone surveys sought quantitative and qualitative data from ED Directors, Directors of Emergency M...

BACKGROUND Efforts to redress racial and gender inequalities in the training of medical specialists has been a central part of a dedicated programme in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT). This study aimed to describe trends in race and gender profiles of postgraduate students in medical specialties (registrars) from 1999 to 2006 and to identify factors affecting...

BACKGROUND Cultural competence is a broad concept with multiple theoretical underpinnings and conflicting opinions on how it should be materialized. While it is recognized that cultural competence should be an integral part of General Practice, literature in the context of General Practice is limited. The aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive summary of the current literature with r...

OBJECTIVES To explore the views of general practice registrars about involving patients in decisions and to assess the feasibility of using the shared decision making model by means of simulated general practice consultations. DESIGN Qualitative study based on focus group interviews. SETTING General practice vocational training schemes in south Wales. PARTICIPANTS 39 general practice regi...

BACKGROUND Since 2007 a portfolio of learning has become a requirement for assessment of postgraduate family medicine training by the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. A uniform portfolio of learning has been developed and content validity established among the eight postgraduate programmes. The aim of this study was to investigate the portfolio's acceptability, educational impact, and perc...

Registrars are an integral part of many contemporary museums, yet theirs is a role that can be difficult to grasp with any certainty. By examining the interconnected functions and duties constitute registrar practice, this article seeks determine its scope greater clarity. To establish context rationale for study, I explore reasons development competing perceptions surrounding profession. The t...

INTRODUCTION The ongoing rural doctor workforce shortage continues to stimulate interest in new strategies to alleviate the situation. Alongside increasingly promising approaches is the notion that attracting and nurturing the 'right' individuals may be paramount to achieving long-term success in recruitment and retention. This study compares the patterns of demographic and temperament and char...

BACKGROUND Training for Australian general practice, or family medicine, can be isolating, with registrars (residents or trainees) moving between rural and urban environments, and between hospital and community clinic posts. Virtual communities of practice (VCoPs), groups of people sharing knowledge about their domain of practice online and face-to-face, may have a role in overcoming the isolat...

OBJECTIVE To describe the geographical mobility of general practitioners in Australia, both within rural areas and between rural and metropolitan areas. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Annual panel survey of GPs between 2008 and 2012. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Work location, categorised by a typology based on geographical location and community size; frequency of mobility (change of location category);...

BACKGROUND We aimed to assess the feasibility of using community-based informants' networks to identify maternal deaths that were followed up through verbal autopsies (MADE-IN MADE-FOR technique) to estimate maternal mortality in a rural district in Pakistan. METHODS We used 4 community networks to identify deaths in women of reproductive age in the past 2 years in Chakwal district, Pakistan....