7. Trainees: number of trainees; admission policy and selection; working conditions; support and counselling for trainees; and trainee representation.
In August government data predicted a 10% shortfall in the number of trainees for this year.
A similar number of trainees follows in April, long before any meaningful evaluation of the first wave will be possible.
He said he was increasingly concerned about the falling number of trainees joining the profession, and their uneven distribution throughout the country.
In 2005, there were 14,500 controllers, of whom 16 percent were trainees; by 2010, the number of trainees had risen to 26 percent, while the total number of trainees and controllers had risen by 1,100 to 15,700.
As a result, teaching hospitals have already had to increase the number of trainees or reduce the time spent on nonpatient care activities.
Prevalence was calculated as the number of trainees in each category divided by the total number of trainees, and prevalence ratios were calculated with chi square.
As the number of trainees inflates, less attention is paid to each one.
Yet, the duration of training and limited number of trainees mean these programs cannot fill the urgent human resource gap.
Yamamoto balked at the idea of using salary as a lever to shift the number of trainees in the system.
Surgical training is arduous with large number of trainees reporting burnout, and it could be expected that grit is a fundamental requirement to complete training.
