Medical-engineering Cross-innovation Postgraduate Talent Training

Postgraduate medical training: getting patients on board.

OBJECTIVES To survey family planning clinic (FPC) patients who may be involved in the Diploma of the Faculty of Family Planning (DFFP) practical training; to obtain their views about the process of giving consent to their involvement; and to compare their views with current practice. METHODS Questionnaire surveys of 103 female FPC patients and 40 DFFP instructing doctors. Patients were recrui...

Talent and Innovation:

Work-based Assessment and Co-production in Postgraduate Medical Training

Assessment has always been an essential component of postgraduate medical education and for many years focused predominantly on various types of examinations. While examinations of medical knowledge and more recently of clinical skills with standardized patients can assess learner capability in controlled settings and provide a level of assurance for the public, persistent and growing concerns ...

Postgraduate medical education: residents rating the quality of their training.

OBJECTIVE To determine the residents' rating of the quality of their residency training by measuring their level of satisfaction with the various educational attributes of their training. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Medical Education (DME), Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, from September to November 2008. METHODOL...

Postgraduate medical education and specialist training in Singapore.

The Singapore Medical School celebrates its Centenary in 2005. This historical review is presented on Singapore's postgraduate medical education and specialist training programmes. The special informal role of the Alumni Association and its members during the early years and soon after World War II is highlighted. Postgraduate education and specialist training was more formalised only during th...