The Education and Training Committee meets at least twice annually to review reports on the work and progress of four standing sub-committees: Trainee Selection, Curriculum Development, Minority Recruitment and Tracking and Evaluation.
Emergency medicine has long been practised in many forms and to a high standard across South Africa without any formal recognition, and indeed elective periods in South Africa have long been seen as a valuable addition to any overseas trainee's curriculum vitae.
Based on the results of this survey and what we considered should be expected of our trainees, the curriculum development group decided on a set of four EPAs that trainees will be required to have assessed during Stage 1 of their training.
Quality in graduate medical education programs is complex and has many crucial components such as curriculum, trainee competency, and faculty development.
Supplementary to the core curriculum, trainees pursue specific clinical interests through electives.
The Johns Hopkins led study, described in May in the online version of the journal Menopause, discovered that some American obstetrics/gynecology residency programs fail to offer trainees any formal curriculum or clinical experience focused primarily on women's pre- and post-menopausal health.
This in theory could have some impact on the confidence levels of current Foundation trainees but the curriculum change does not provide a template as to how training in managing long term conditions is to be delivered.
We, at the Aga Khan University have a trainee centered program and strongly believe in the transition of trainer based to trainee based curriculum (Table 4).
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In this paper, I report on the novel use of narrative frames as a needs analysis tool in the design of an EFL curriculum for trainee seamen in Kiribati.
