OBJECTIVES Feedback in workplace-based clinical settings often relies on expert trainers' judgements of directly observed trainee performance. There is ample literature on effective feedback, but in practice trainees in workplace-based training are not regularly observed. We aimed to examine external conditions that impact feedback in observational workplace-based assessment (WBA). METHODS In...

OBJECTIVE To study the teaching of minor surgery to preregistration house officers in surgery and their confidence in their skills. DESIGN Questionnaire survey of consultants and vocational trainees. SETTING Trent, Oxford, and East Anglian Regional Health Authorities. SUBJECTS All consultant surgeons (n = 148) with preregistration house officers on their firm and all first year vocational...

BACKGROUND Gaps in chronic disease management have led to calls for novel methods of interprofessional, team-based care. Population panel management (PPM), the process of continuous quality improvement across groups of patients, is rarely included in health professions training for physicians, nurses, or pharmacists. The feasibility and acceptance of such training across different healthcare pr...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to explore variations in the provision of integrated academic surgical training across the UK. DESIGN This is an online cross-sectional survey (consisting of 44 items with a range of free-text, binomial and 5-point Likert scale responses) developed by the Association of Surgeons in Training. SETTING A self-reported survey instrument was distributed to academic su...

A method of assessment is described which can be used by trainees at the end of their vocational training in general practice. The assessment allows trainees to make ratings and comments on their teaching practices that can be returned confidentially to their trainers. The results of this assessment suggest that trainees in the Northumbria vocational training scheme are reasonably satisfied wit...

The paper proposes a theory that trainees have varying ability levels across different factors of cognitive ability, and that these abilities are used in varying levels by different training methods. The paper reviews characteristics of training methods and matches these characteristics to different factors of cognitive ability. The paper proposes that if organizations assign trainees to method...