OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of the Calman reforms of higher specialist training on trainee satisfaction. DESIGN Questionnaire surveys using portable electronic survey units, two years apart. SETTING Postgraduate, teaching, district general, and community NHS trusts in North Thames. North Thames deanery includes London north of the Thames, Essex, and Hertfordshire. PARTICIPANTS Train...

Earlier this year, the General Medical Council (GMC) in the UK published a document setting out standards for training junior doctors. As such documents go, it is clear, comprehensive anddas the GMC might say itselfdfit for purpose. While no-one would be tempted to set it to music, it’s certainly useful to have a standard in writing like the following one: ‘Trainees must be supported to acquire...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether demographic factors are associated with self-reported experience amongst medical trainees in the UK. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of survey data. SETTING General Medical Council (UK) National Training Survey data for 2014 and 2015. PARTICIPANTS A total of 105,549 responses were provided from 68,551 participants when no data were removed. After removing d...

background: with regard to accelerated progresses in the world of science and technology, as well as changes in the needs of the society, medical education should be a developing process. one of the main factors that can promote education from a static to a dynamic and effective state is evaluation. purpose: the purpose of the present survey is to determine the rate of success of medical studen...

The present study was an attempt to explore the effect of clinical supervision on EFL teachers’ level of burnout. For this purpose, a total number of 80 male and female EFL teachers within the age range of 26 and 47 who were working at a language school in Tehran participated in this study. Forty teachers in the experimental group underwent a clinical supervision program which comprised the thr...

the recently approved Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Common Program Requirements including new Standards for Resident Supervision and Duty Hours will take effect July, 2011. These new requirements revise the initial regulations implemented by the ACGME in 2003 and respond in part to recommendations set forth by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2008. The changes a...

The article analyzes scientific papers on the essence of control and supervisory activities terms supervision. author identifies issues that require theoretical practical solutions. It is established existing educational research in field consider a number issues, particular: aspects defining concepts supervision, general relationship these organization activities. provides definitions includin...