In Colombia last year eight novilleros (trainee matadors) staged a hunger strike outside Bogotá's bullring, under a banner that read: "We don't want food.
We were concerned enough about the growing influence of pharmaceutical marketing on trainees to stage this workshop, but we were careful to remember our goals of encouraging critical thinking about the topic rather than simply condemning the PCR contact.
The committee considered that discussing with a family a diagnosis of schizophrenia was an important EPA as it covered basic knowledge, communication skills, dealt with a disorder commonly seen by our trainees at this stage of their training and is something that trainees are expected to do.
The office will also strive to support students, faculty and trainees at every stage of their careers, working to cultivate a diverse and inclusive environment in clinic, lab and classroom.
Almost all specialist oncological trainees thought that ?stage? or ?performance status? was very important to the outcome, but nearly two-thirds (65%, n=217) rated nutritional status as very important.
There was strong agreement that trainees at this stage in their career could be entrusted to conduct a risk assessment, conduct a crisis assessment with handover and report to the duty consultants, and be involved in the acute assessment and immediate management of psychiatric emergencies.
The programme, however, was also intended to support the academic development of the surgical trainee at an early stage, and it is noteworthy that 116 students who enrolled in the programme since its launch in 2007 continued to complete a postgraduate degree.
Academic research institutions should encourage and support faculty educators in the development of SciComm curricula by promoting and rewarding their efforts, either at the individual level or programmatically, through the final stages of trainee professional development.
Importantly, these initiatives have also been accompanied by parallel investments in trainee mentorship across all stages of their professional career paths, including a specific emphasis on physician-scientists.
But Volkswagen also devoted significant time to its efforts to promote youth employment in troubled European countries, bringing two young trainees from Spain and Portugal on stage to speak about how happy they were to have jobs at Volkswagen.
