This paper focuses on the development of online information literacy in translator training. First, it highlights the important role that information skills, especially web searching skills, play in translation as a cognitive activity requiring information and constant decision making, among others. Second, it argues that if we are to train translation students to work in different subject area...

The Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance is a research initiative in Canada whose mission to promote the synthesis, dissemination, and integration of results into health care public decision-making clinical practice. aim this paper ( i) outline governance committee structure SPOR Alliance, ii) procedures patient system decision-maker engagement, iii) present capacity-...

this paper is mainly intended to explore the two practices of interpreting and translating so as to spot any possible differences between them. it should be noted, however, that the focal point of the present study is interpreting and consecutive interpreting in particular which seems to create a good many problems for novice interpreters as well as interpreting trainees. to achieve the objecti...

A learner-based approach to translator training has already been recognised and discussed in education for the last few years (González-Davies 2004; Kelly 2005; Kiraly 1995, 2000; Massey et al. 2019). With main focus on learning rather than product or process of translation, observed trend translation studies can be called ‘translator studies’ (Chesterman 2009). The tendency teacher-centred gra...

BACKGROUND The variety of health problems (patient mix) that medical trainees encounter is presumed to be sufficient to master the required competencies. AIM To describe the patient mix of GP trainees, to study differences in patient mix between first-year and third-year GP trainees, and to investigate differences in exposure to sex-specific diseases between male and female trainees. DESIGN...

The aims of this study were to elicit general practitioner (GP) trainee's perceptions of the educational structure of their hospital posts, to compare them with those of consultants who had GP trainees as senior house officers (SHOs) in their departments and to examine the use of educational objectives in the hospital component of vocational training for general practice. A confidential postal ...

BACKGROUND Following implementation of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) in the UK, potential radiology trainees must decide on their career and apply sooner than ever before. We aimed to determine whether current trainees were sufficiently informed to make an earlier career decision by comparing the early radiology experiences of Traditional and Foundation Trainees. METHODS 344 radiology tra...

BACKGROUND Concerns have been raised as to whether the current postgraduate training programme for gynaecological surgery is being detrimentally affected by changes in working practices, in particular the European Working Time Directive (EWTD). The purpose of this study was to investigate the surgical activity of obstetrics and gynaecology trainees and to explore trainees' and trainers' opinion...