The RCPSC instituted a Manager Role 'TTTin-the-Trainer' (TTT) Program to assist residency program directors and university curriculum planners design and implement programs to help residents learn this role.
One spring morning during the second year of my surgical residency, I learned that two of my classmates, junior residents like me, had suddenly been fired.
By the end of residency, they learn and refine their skills in a specific subspecialty.
Devon-based Kate Marshall recently spent a residency in India learning traditional craft techniques, including using that of using cow dung in art.
Similarly, NOSM's PG residency programmes combine learning at the regional hospitals in Sudbury and Thunder Bay with clinical rotations throughout rural and Northern Ontario.
One entire core curriculum was validated and ten individual analyses were completed so as to clarify the content that residents should learn during residency in orthopaedic surgery.
Given recent duty hour reform, modernization of graduate medical education and implementation of competency based learning in residency; new tools for improvement and feedback using residents' assessments are needed [7] [9].
Demographic details of subjects included age, gender, year of residency and mode of learning at medical school, Problem based learning (PBL) versus Lecture based learning (LBL).
In a study of Alberta family physicians 91% of respondents reported having learned the procedures in medical school or residency with a minority learning through clinical practice or continuing medical education[ 9].
