Dermatology within the United Kingdom is facing significant challenges on service provision. registrars/trainees are backbone for future National Health Service but there a lack of literature their career intentions following completion training.
 We conducted semi-structured one-to-one interviews ten senior dermatology registrars West Midlands. Information demographics, intention and fact...

Most consultants are involved in the training and assessment of several grades of doctors in training especially senior house officers (SHOs) and specialist registrars. In the medical and other specialties there is an increasing trend towards assessing junior doctors' competency using the record of in-training assessment process for specialist registrars and using the Royal College of Physician...

BACKGROUND Many general practitioners accept vocational registrars and medical students into their practice. Giving feedback to students on their work performance is an essential component of teaching in general OBJECTIVE This article examines the central role of feedback in the teaching of medical students and registrars and provides practical guidelines on how to provide feedback in the set...

Six hundred and seventy-six insulin tests performed in the early postoperative period after vagotomy and drainage for duodenal ulcer were analysed by the criteria of Hollander. Consultants had done 364 vagotomies, of which 17.6% were shown to be incomplete. Registrars and senior registrars had done 312, of which 12.2% were incomplete. Thus, consultants may not be significantly better, on averag...

BACKGROUND The Remote Vocational Training Scheme trains doctors in remote communities using distance education and supervision. AIMS To document the training location, outcomes of training, current location and services provided by program graduates and assess the effectiveness of their training. RESULTS Twenty-four doctors graduated from the Remote Vocational Training Scheme program. Regis...

Medical education in Australia is currently entering a new era, including support for the significant extension of medical students and general practitioner (GP) registrars' training programs in rural communities. This commitment to rural medical student and general practitioner recruitment and retention has made the provision of accommodation in rural communities a vital issue. This study has ...

A method for assessing the consultation skills required in general practice using patient simulators within a simulated surgery has been developed in Leicester, aimed at registrars coming to the end of their three-year training programme. This paper addresses the issues of validity, describing the technique as it has evolved over the past three years, and paying particular attention to ways in ...

Aim: To evaluate the radio-opacity of fish bones from a number of species using digital radiography in order to establish whether advances in acquisition and interpretative techniques have affected the radiologist’s ability to detect impacted fish bones. Methods: The bones from six species of fish commonly consumed in the United Kingdom were radiographed using a soft tissue neck phantom by mean...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Immunisation uptake in Australian older adults is suboptimal. General practice registrars are responsible for a significant proportion of immunisations this age group and also the process developing patterns practice. Despite their role, little known about general registrars' attitudes towards immunisation adults, barriers faced, role supervisors play adult skills. ME...

Emergency physicians and registrars performed emergency cricothyroidotomy on an artificial airway model using a standard surgical approach and three common commercial products, participants had received no refresher training. The order in which the methods were used was randomised to minimise any learning effect. Three methods (standard surgical, Minitrach II, and Quicktrach) were universally s...