Our Trainees’ Confidence

Valuing our trainees: the future of medicine in the UK.

Northeast Under/graduate Research Organization for Neuroscience (NEURON): Our Thirteenth Conference for Neuroscience Trainees and Educators

The Northeast Under/Graduate Research Organization for Neuroscience (NEURON) was established 12 years ago in order to foster the training, education, and research of both undergraduate and graduate neuroscience students. NEURON hosts two annual conferences (Boston in the fall; New York City in the spring) to promote and support neuroscience training, education, and research. For 12 years, the o...

Northeast Under/graduate Research Organization for Neuroscience (NEURON): our 13th conference for neuroscience trainees and educators.

*Behavioral Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115; Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215; Neuroscience Program and Department of Biology, Stonehill College, Easton, MA 02357; Program in Psychology, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ 07430; and Departments of Psychology and Biological Sciences Centers for Life Science and Neuros...

The Confidence of Pediatric Trainees in Performing Musculoskeletal Screening Examination in Children in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Background: Pediatric residents have limited training in musculoskeletal (MSK) screening examination. This causes delay in identifying red flags that warrant referral to pediatric rheumatology. This study assessed the confidence of pediatric residents in two public teaching hospitals: Al-Mafraq Hospital (AMH) and Sheikh Khalifah Medical City (SKMC) in performing (MSK) examination. It also impro...

PReS-FINAL-2247: Confidence of UK general peadiatric trainees in musculoskeletal clinical assessment and preferences for future teaching resources

Introduction Musculoskeletal (MSK) problems in children and adolescents are common (1-4) and may represent serious life threatening disease (5-7). Many doctors have low confidence in examining children’s joints, stemming from MSK teaching not being core in many training programmes (8). In an attempt to address this, paediatric MSK competencies were introduced into the Royal College of Paediatri...