BACKGROUND General practice registrars are now required to undertake a summative assessment of their consulting skills. Simulated surgeries have been developed as an alternative to the existing method of assessing video-recorded consultations. AIM To evaluate the simulated surgery assessment method, developed in the General Practice Postgraduate Education Department in Leicester, for use in a...

OBJECTIVES To pilot the use of a range of complementary risk communication tools in simulated general practice consultations; to gauge the responses of general practitioners in training to these new consultation aids. DESIGN Qualitative study based on focus group discussions. SETTING General practice vocational training schemes in South Wales. PARTICIPANTS 39 general practice registrars a...

BACKGROUND The role of physiotherapists in obstetrics and gynecology is pivotal. However, utilization of their capabilities depends on the cooperation of other health professionals in discharging their services to patients, who are the focus of the team. This study was designed to assess the attitude of obstetricians and gynecologists in south-western Nigeria towards involving physiotherapists ...

BACKGROUND Audit is a criterion for training in general practice, and registrars are reliant on their trainers' teaching of basic audit methods. Their ability to teach this had been assumed, but registrars' projects submitted as part of summative assessment offered an opportunity to test this. AIM To test trainers' knowledge of basic audit methods. Their knowledge was based on an ability to r...

BACKGROUND The patient handover is important for the safe transition from the pre-hospital setting to secondary care. The loss of critical information about the pre-hospital phase may impact upon the clinical course of the patient. METHODS University Hospital Emergency Care registrars answered a questionnaire about how they perceive clinical documentation from the ambulance services. We also ...

BACKGROUND Despite supernumerary registrars (SNRs) being hosted in South African (SA) training programmes, there are no reports of their experience. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the experience of SNRs at the University of Cape Town, SA, and the experience of SNRs from the perspective of SA registrars (SARs). METHODS SNRs and SARs completed an online survey in 2012. RESULTS Seventy-three registr...

BACKGROUND We wished to ascertain in what way recent changes such as Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the implementation of the Working Time Directive (WTD) have affected clinical training and experience for anaesthetists in a teaching centre, in particular the provision of training in specialized fields of anaesthesia provided in the teaching hospital. METHODS Data were extracted from t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a community engaged vertically integrated teaching and learning pilot project. METHOD Thematic analysis of focus group interviews was used to examine 27 general practitioners' (GPs'), registrars' and medical students' perceptions of a vertically integrated workshop in adolescent health and subsequent small group health education sessions at two secondary schools. Pre- an...

OBJECTIVE To assess the abilities of doctors to interpret neonatal cranial ultrasound scans. DESIGN AND SETTING High resolution scanned images of six important neonatal cranial ultrasound abnormalities were posted as a questionnaire to the 59 neonatal units in the North and South Thames regions. RESULTS Forty two questionnaires were returned (71%). Currently 56% of those interpreting crania...