We decided to work on this idea that GP registrars are competent but not confident. How can we help registrars to leave us not as saplings but as young oaks? In Bristol we now have speciality doctors for 18 months in general practice and if recommendation 45 of Sir John Tookes’ Report on Modernising Medical Careers is carried out then we will come into line with Europe. The length of training i...

BACKGROUND Workplace-based formative assessments using consultation observation are currently conducted during the Australian general practice training program. Assessment reliability is improved by using multiple assessment methods. The aim of this study was to explore experiences of general practice medical educator assessors and registrars (trainees) when adding random case analysis to direc...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the issues all general practice educators need to understand when educating GP registrars to learn about research. STUDY DESIGN A review of MEDLINE [1996-2007], six websites and key informants produced 302 publications, which reduced to 35 articles, 7 books, and 9 policy documents. RESULTS Key themes that emerged from a thematic analysis of the literature that GP educ...

BACKGROUND Reporting incidents can contribute to safer health care, as an awareness of the weaknesses of a system could be considered as a starting point for improvements. It is believed that patient safety education for specialty registrars could improve their attitudes, intentions and behaviour towards incident reporting. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of a two-day pati...

OBJECTIVE Psychiatry registrars form the backbone of specialized psychiatric service provision in South Africa. Medical schools are centralized while clinical services need to be widespread and accessible. Video-conferencing has the potential to link registrars at satellite hospitals with academic centers. The study thus evaluated of the use of videoconferencing in a Psychiatry Education Progra...

BACKGROUND Cancer registries systematically collect cancer-related data to support cancer surveillance activities. However, cancer data are often unavailable for months to years after diagnosis, limiting its utility. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify the barriers to rapid cancer reporting and identify ways to shorten the turnaround time. METHODS Certified cancer registra...

BACKGROUND Training bodies see teaching by junior doctors and vocational trainees in general practice (family medicine) as integral to a doctor's role. While there is a body of literature on teacher training programs, and on peer and near-peer teaching in hospitals and universities, there has been little examination of near-peer teaching in general practice. Near-peer teaching is teaching to th...

OBJECTIVE To obtain detailed information about the degree of surgical trainee supervision and delegation of procedures in a subspecialised department. DESIGN Operative procedures and their logical components were recorded in a database constructed in Microsoft Access. Information about operating surgeon and assistants and their grade was registered prospectively over 12 months. SUBJECTS AND...

BACKGROUND Learning plans are a compulsory component of the training and assessment requirements of general practice (GP) registrars in Australia. There is a small but growing number of studies reporting that learning plans are not well accepted or utilised in general practice training. There is a lack of research examining this apparent contradiction. The aim of this study was to examine use a...

Purpose: To assess the impact of a regular sonographer proctored training program for emergency medicine trainees in the use of Emergency Department bedside ultrasound Methods: Emergency Department (ED) Registrars in the Swan District Hospital ED were provided with proctored instruction in bedside ultrasound in performance of extended focused assessment sonography in trauma (eFAST) and abdomina...