It also directed trainees to the unique aspects of assessing older people with the evidence-based 'comprehensive geriatric assessment' (CGA; Stuck et al, 1993).
As a mentor, Nash says, he is quite direct with trainees in letting them know what facilitates and what hinders their ability to be team scientists.
The exclusion criteria were: being a resident, being retired or licensed, not having direct contact with trainees in pediatrics and not working with child care.
We were able to maintain hours of direct supervision of trainees by consultants in their elective time because during that time there was no night on-call or weekend work.
Two tools (5.9%) implemented the direct observation of trainees with actual patients: one evaluated the non-technical skills of anaesthesia residents in the operating theatre, 41 and the other assessed nurses' patient safety handling at inpatients' bedsides (the 'does' level).
Pediatric departments have reported difficulty securing faculty for teaching duties, while at the same time standards for medical education are expanding to include increased emphasis on direct observation of trainees and timely feedback and assessment of residents and students [ 5, 6].
Drawing on the available literature, Coverdale et al 5 categorised the common forms of maltreatment directed towards medical trainees as verbal abuse or humiliation, non-sexual harassment, sexual harassment and forms of prejudice against sexual orientation or ethnicity.
And in 2003, the accreditation council imposed the 80-hour limit on all U.S. training programs, prohibited trainees from direct patient care after 24 hours of continuous duty and mandated at least one day off per week.
Rather than retreiting and reinforcing western notions, there are enough ethical issues in the developing world to which such trainees could direct their searchlight and scholarship.
Therefore, the evaluations included direct feedback from the trainees immediately after they had taken the course and later, when they were practicing at their respective places of work after graduation, as well as the successful establishment of the capacity to run the child psychiatry training by Jimma University's local faculty.
