Time pressure on trainees and supervisors alike places a premium on efficiency in training students to master clinical skills. Through role-playing, a supervisor can create multiple iterations of the desired skill until competence is obtained. The skill training can be advanced in intensity and complexity until the trainer and trainee are confident that the interviewing skill is accessible on d...

Persistence in a research career can be readily understood within the trainee models that have emerged from undergraduate and graduate instruction. These models offer a common language for discussing training processes, serve as guides for assessing trainee needs, promise to render training programs that are more comprehensive and attentive than are current programs to the factors that contribu...

The General Surgical Training Programmes worldwide are designed to ensure that the advanced surgical trainee in surgery achieves competency in knowledge, skill and attitude, both operative and non-operative in a wide range of common surgical conditions, enabling the trainee to practice competently as a surgeon. Therefore, the goal of the surgical training is to train broad-based, highly qualifi...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to describe a step-by-step approach to the successful mentorship of trainees completing retrospective radiology research projects. The topics addressed include selection of a mentor and mentee and the selection, planning, initiation, and completion of a retrospective research project. CONCLUSION Mentoring a trainee in the completion of a retrospective ...

The European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) is an umbrella organization for trainee associations in 31 countries. A survey asked member countries about the three most important issues facing postgraduate training. Qualitative analysis grouped responses in five categories: implementation of new postgraduate curricula, poor working conditions, low recruitment of psychiatric trainees, i...

Training transfer is refers to the trainees ability to accept what has been taught in the course of training and transfer them to actual working situation and be able to retain it for a certain period of time. The evaluation is to identify the relationship between trainee characteristics, training design and work environment towards transfer of training among employee. The findings of the study...

A computer-based training tool was developed through a collaborative design process. The tool allows trainee radiologists to access a large number of suspicious lesions. The tool employs a certainty-based scoring system in which trainees‟ responses are scored not just as right or wrong but according to their confidence. Different approaches to providing trainees with feedback were considered: o...

Mentors without Borders is a proposed international mentoring network that allows trainee geneticists to identify mentors from a list of volunteers who are not at one's own institution. It is an experiment, a matchmaker between a junior and a senior professional. These mentors do not replace the mentors at the home institution but allow the mentee, if desired, to identify mentors outside of the...

Presents a photograph of plasma physics trainee involved in nuclear fusion experiments.

The excessive number and consequently poor career prospects of registrars in training have recently been the subject of comment.' Even in a shortage specialty such as anaesthesia suitably qualified registrars have had difficulty in obtaining promotion to the senior registrar grade for higher professional training2 and expanding the grade would improve the registrars' chances of promotion. Are e...