Alongside these faculty members are a cadre of highly motivated trainees enrolled in the PhD graduate program, as well as residents and fellows in the Clinical Pathology Division.
Thirdly, instead of selecting medical students who might not choose a surgical career, we studied highly motivated trainees who needed to learn laparoscopic skills for the future.
Personalized peer-comparison feedback to emergency medicine residents regarding their ultrasound scan numbers appears to motivate trainees to increase the number of bedside ultrasound studies performed per shift.
Part of this work relies on administering surveys constructed using assumptions and inferences that we as trainers make regarding what motivates trainees and the factors that affect their choices.
This change very well may, as Garrison, Gerbi and Justement suggest, create problems for academic institutions long accustomed to staffing their labs with an unlimited supply of low-cost, highly motivated postdoctoral "trainees".
Appropriate use of such tools can motivate a trainees' learning and at least enhance patient safety awareness.
Since all participants were volunteers, they may have been more motivated to carefully assess trainee performance.
Participants in our study were all volunteers and therefore may have been more motivated to carefully assess trainees' performance.
With a burgeoning baby boomer cohort, cognitive training programs are of paramount value, but only if researchers can ensure that trainees are motivated to comply with the intervention requirements.
When they were instructors at Hebrew University in 1968, Dr. Kahneman said, they became fascinated by how fighter-pilot trainers, taking classes at the university, decided whether to use rewards or punishments to motivate their pilot trainees.
Because of their more mature level of clinical experience, CIP trainees tend to be highly motivated to push the frontiers of research toward clinical applications.
