Methods The West Midlands Research Collaborative is a trainee-led research group. Based around rotating general surgery registrars, the group has devised, planned and delivered multicentre randomised trials. This structure has led to the development of other regional groups, which has now enabled national geographical coverage. The trainee-led approach has been mimicked in other surgical discip...

Consultants regularly need to decide whether a trainee can be entrusted to perform a clinical activity independently. 'Entrustable professional activities' (EPA) provide a framework for justifying and better utilising supervisor entrustment decisions for trainee feedback and assessment in the workplace. Since being proposed by Olle ten Cate in 2005, EPA are emerging as an integral part of many ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the reliability of inspection-based classification of sagittal gait patterns in children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD Video clip recordings of gait patterns and sagittal kinematic data obtained by a computerized motion analysis system from 91 patients with bilateral spastic CP were reviewed. The abnormal gait patterns were classified into 4 group...

Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as one of the important and effective tools for education and training. Most VRbased training systems are situation-based, where the trainees are trained for discrete decision-making in special situations presented by the VR environments. In contrast, this paper discusses the application of VR to a different class of training, for learning exact motions, often r...

3.1 Members Toshiyuki Imamura (Team Leader) Yoshiharu Ohi (PostDoctoral Researcher) Yusuke Hirota (PostDoctoral Researcher) Daichi Mukunoki (PostDoctoral Researcher) Daisuke Takahashi (Senior Visiting Researcher) Franz Franchetti (Visiting Researcher) Yoshio Okamoto (Visiting Researcher) Takeshi Fukaya (Visiting Researcher) Cong Li (Student Trainee) Doru Thom Popovich (Student Trainee) Yukiko A...

Communication skills and the psychosocial dimensions of patient care are increasingly taught in medical schools and generalist residency programs. Evidence suggests they are not reinforced or optimally implemented in clinical training. The authors present the product of an iterative process that was part of a national faculty development program and involved both experts and generalist teachers...

The Essex faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners organized a collaborative study for trainees in Essex between October 1986 and July 1988. Of the trainees in post during the study period, 28 (46%) participated. The study was performed not only as an educational exercise for trainees in their practice year but also to assess the feasibility of collaborative study as a research too...

303 Healing is a phenomenon that until quite recently scientists rejected out of hand. Now it seems that, despite grave doubts as to the possibility, even skeptical students— including both scientists and nonscientists—can be trained to carry it out effectively, if only on mice (which are presumably easier to heal than humans). Bengtson’s account (pp. 317–327) of six experiments on healing mice...