In Cochin, Leela Bai Nair, 48, a former teacher who has 23 years of experience and is an academic trainer for Growing Stars, said she was "floored at first when 10-year old American students addressed me as Leela.
Generally, as the approach to short courses is fundamentally different from academic teaching, trainers with specific short-course experience may be more suitable than university professors.
Her background enabled her to take participatory roles in different capacities; as a consultant paediatrician, academic, ETAT+ trainer and as a researcher conducting an action oriented ethnographic study.
After having conducted four focus groups, in all of which at least one GP with an academic affiliation (GP trainer or researcher) participated, we decided to organise a fifth focus group with only non-academic GPs, since we anticipated that an academic affiliation might influence their ideas regarding the initial question and the current research question.
However, on the more optimistic side, trainers of academic clinical fellows (ACFs) were notably more supportive of trainees strongly participating in research, suggesting that the NIHR Integrated Academic Training programme is both necessary and valued.
The NCAA is ordering Notre Dame to vacate wins from its 2012 and 2013 football seasons because a student athletic trainer committed academic misconduct by doing substantial coursework for two players and giving six others impermissible academic extra benefits.
The program has an academic lead, an SP trainer (50%) and an administrator (20%) who work closely with the clinical skills centre.
The levels of research skills and experience can be divided in four, simple, logical categories of research involvement: Non-participants, participants, research managers and trainers, and academics [see Additional File 2].
Emergency medicine, a relatively new medical specialty in South Africa, is not yet well established at Cape Town's central academic hospitals resulting in limited trainers and ultrasound machine availability for the trainees who were stationed there.
The required 65 scans were completed under certified trainers' supervision in central academic, regional and district hospitals located in Cape Town, South Africa.
