The authors, guided by the analysis of teacher trainees' learner texts and reflections, propose a new set of such criteria to be implemented in telecollaborative task design.
This enables trainees become reflexive learners who can identify their learning needs, seek the desired information and eventually become life long learners 3 To enable trainees integrate the theory and practical aspects, as well as the basic science and clinical/professional aspects of their training.
Falagas et al. did a head-to-head comparison of three learners (two medical students and one "trainee doctor") in which the learners first provided their diagnoses to NEJM cases without help, and then repeated the exercise with the help of Google and Pubmed.
The latter is compromised in real clinical settings where there is inherent tension between the primary need for clinicians to be patient-centred yet also respond to trainees in a learner-centred way [ 6].
Independent of whether the learner is a trainee or a patient, physicians try to adapt their teaching to the learner's level of knowledge, what they believe they need to know, and a way of communicating that suits each learner.
Our interview takes place during a curry workshop in a church hall in Bournemouth, where learners and a trainee teacher sit around one large table chatting, chopping vegetables and passing around pots of herbs and spices to smell.
Most trainees found themselves active learners, but a few considered themselves passive learners, tending to postpone learning activities or only engaging in them when prompted to do so by others.
It was unclear whether the registrars were sharing learning with others at the same or a different level to themselves, and other levels of learner such as prevocational trainees or students did not appear to be involved, so the results cannot necessarily be extrapolated to other settings in which multiple levels of learner are taught together.
Seven focus group interviews were conducted with experienced GPs, communication trainers (GPs and behavioural scientists) and communication learners (GP trainees and medical students) and three focus group interviews with groups of GP trainees only.
The LPS was developed to examine and measure learner satisfaction for all healthcare trainees working in VA.
