Emma Kell has been teaching for almost 20 years and has worked extensively with trainees and NQTs.
Q. Taking the train home at night, I often share the car with trainees attending the New York City Police Academy.
To be effective, learning needs to fit with trainees' experience of the way their world operates, and be practical and applicable to their lives.
What about my kids and my grandchildren?" If I was in Egypt, I would be more senior now, with trainees underneath me.
The research compared internal medicine residents at McMaster University, who were prohibited from meeting with drug representatives during training, with trainees at the University of Toronto, across town, who had no such limitations.
Instead, we need longer GP training (extending from three to four years), with trainees focusing on key specialties that are needed in the community, such as dermatology, musculoskeletal medicine, palliative care and psychiatry.
One explanation may be that pharmaceutical and medical device companies are less interested in building relationships with trainees headed for research careers rather than those who will become prescribing physicians.
Arguably, however, education programs with trainees could highlight the potential benefits of appropriate help-seeking in occupational contexts.
Although the studies with trainees and with experienced officers were preregistered separately, we describe their methods and results jointly given that they used identical procedures.
We sought to determine if certain aspects of residency programs and resident characteristics were associated with trainees' perceived comfort in performing certain basic TS procedures.
I have enjoyed these, as they offer a great opportunity to meet with trainees from around the country and discuss current issues.
