Additionally a better representation of general practice in hospitals and universities could foster students' and vocational trainees' understanding about general practice.
Of these 7 studies, 6 described an education initiative designed to improve medical trainees' understanding of and/or ability to confidently carry out medication reconciliation.
Experiencing these multiple perspectives and the ambiguity of the partners involved in communication [ 22, 23] helps to improve trainees' understanding of the complexity of the physician-patient interaction.
International health electives (IHEs) in some settings have been shown to increase United States (US) medical trainees' understanding of public health, primary care, health disparities and barriers to care, in addition to raising National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) scores and improving physical exam and history taking skills [ 1].
As to the question of what the training gave them, most trainees mentioned knowledge, understanding, and acceptance.
Field observations during the training revealed that the trainees had trouble understanding treatment regimens, storage conditions, and the communication of positive test results.
Physicians described this orientation with both trainees and patients in similar ways, such as focusing on understanding the trainee or patient as a whole person with individual needs and expectations to be integrated in the learning situation as described.
Examiners may be constrained from assessing the trainee's understanding of a complex patient [ 2].
50 Medical schools, general practice training programmes and continuing professional development facilitators all have roles to play in ensuring that curricula focuses trainees and practitioners on understanding the nature and psychology of diagnostic error.
In the higher education literature, the concept of teaching in the zone of proximal development describes the importance of understanding what the trainee knows and does not yet know, and focusing the teaching in the zone just beyond their current knowledge [ 35].
