He said: "I hope that the option of a longer trainee rate period will encourage employers to increase the availability of good quality training opportunities and trainee positions, and that these positions would attract local unemployed people".
Senator Le Gresley also agreed to the introduction of a new second year trainee rate of £5.71, for those who have undertaken training for a year and will continue to do so for a second.
In ranking various ultrasound applications, all 15 trainees rated obstetrics most important.
The positive predictive value (PPV) of the program was estimated by comparing the trainees rating of disease status with an expert in case identification.
On the first survey, trainees rated their agreement with statements describing improvements in communication and English language comprehension and literacy (1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = no opinion, 4 = agree, 5 = strongly agree; Fig. 2).
Overall, on a scale of one to five, with five being extremely useful, 98% of trainees rated the course at 4 or 5 out of 5 at three months (n = 124) and 99% rated it the same at six months (n = 185).
Neuroimaging trainees rate indifference as a significant barrier, as well as a lack of ethics resources.
So in some questions, there were more trainees rated by their trainers than trainees who filled the questionnaire what also affected the evaluation.
The trainees rated each session based on its usefulness (5-point Likert scales); the rating scales were taken from our previous study [ 23].
However, data from the National Training Surveys indicate that less than two-thirds of Foundation trainees rated their induction as good or excellent (65.4 % in 2011; 63.1 % in 2013) [ 12, 13].
