Rogaland Training and Education Centre, RKK, have developed a unique setting in how to exploit the formal education system by providing vocational training to industry. This has further been enhanced as e-learning based on the Internet experiences gathered in the NettLæR research project with Stavanger University College and several companies. The experience provides wide possibilities in provi...

performance and consultation skill work. The trial GPs improved their detection rate significantly, both compared to their performance at baseline and compared to the control group. Everyday consulting requires GPs to switch their attention quickly from perhaps an elderly arthritic patient, a patient with diabetes, a feverish child, and someone with headache, backache or persistent tiredness wh...

and lasting about ten years to the time of complete maturity. The limits of this period are rather indefinite. It is immediately preceded by a year or two of rapid growth and great physical and spiritual change. This short period of change is the time when the boy is at the parting of the ways. He is ceasing to be a child, but is not yet a man. He is in the 'hobble-de-hoy' stage of life. He is ...

The introduction of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the regulatory framework being implemented by the new Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) will bring about major changes for all doctors in training, not least in general practice (GP). As there has been longstanding criticism of elements of the GP training programme, which has been set in regulation for the past 25...

OBJECTIVE This is an invited paper for a special issue on international perspectives on training and practice in clinical neuropsychology. We provide a review of the status of clinical neuropsychology in Israel, including the history of neuropsychological, educational, and accreditation requirements to become a clinical neuropsychologist and to practice clinical neuropsychology. METHOD The in...