APPRENTICESHIP TO MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.

Student Apprenticeship to General Practitioners

The other major change has been that an opportunity is now given to every student during the last three months of his training to be attached to a general practitioner. This was started in 1954 and has been carried out every year since. In 1954, 36 students took part in the scheme; in 1955 there were 30, and in 1956, 28. Students were attached to 6 country practices and 18 town practices and th...

Whatever happened to apprenticeship learning?

BACKGROUND I have been a clinical tutor for 10 years in Worthing Hospital, UK. During this time I have seen an increased emphasis on classroom teaching, assessments in controlled situations and simulation, rather than on apprenticeship learning during well-supervised clinical working. CONTEXT At the educational conference on 'Learning without Leaving the Workplace' hosted by my hospital, I ha...

The Returns to Apprenticeship Training

This paper uses recent data from the UK Labour Force Survey to estimate the wage gains that individuals make on average if they complete an apprenticeship programme. The results suggest gains of around 5-7% for men, but no benefit for women. Further analysis extends the results by considering the returns by age group, by qualification obtained, by highest prior qualification and by industrial s...

Dental Surgery for Medical Practitioners

tartar but the latter in the first place is purely a deposit of lime salts from saliva. On pp. 56 and 57 he states that the carbohydrate eating Indians are freer from caries than meat-eating Europeans. This may be true, but it is not the meat portion of European diet that causes caries, but the various other patent and manufactured foods that they eat. On the other hand the tremendous prevalenc...

Dental Surgery for Medical Practitioners