The training was delivered in blocks with time in between to practice and consolidate skills.
Trainee doctors work to consolidate skills learnt in medical school and further improve their performance.
In the F1 year in particular, trainees begin to take supervised responsibility for patients and to consolidate skills learned at medical school.
As demonstrated in our study, lectures and online presentations should be used to present foundation knowledge (e.g. research methods, information literacy and critical appraisal techniques), whilst small group activities should be used to consolidate skills including critical appraisal and application to the clinical scenario.
As evidenced in the pre study questionnaire to the outgoing FY1 trainees, not only do junior medical staff report a lack of confidence in performing a range of simple clinical tasks, they have also had little reported experience undertaking and consolidating skills in these tasks on either training mannequins or actual patients prior to practice.
However, because their current system resources are sufficient for adequate functioning, they need longer to consolidate the skill in which they were trained [33], [39], [42].
In 2005 the need to develop a teaching method that would enable students to consolidate the skills of caseload management, critical thinking, decision making, and prioritizing patient care was identified.
This shift has caused decreases in available cases for junior surgeons to gain and consolidate operative skills.
The results indicated the efficacy of a 24-h PTP, and also the need to consolidate the skills acquired by regular post-training sessions.
Nonetheless, appropriate project funding is crucially related to capacity strengthening, as it stimulates training and institutional development as well as provides the critical experience to consolidate research skills.
