ST2 GP trainees at the Imperial College London GP Specialty Training Programme have the opportunity of amalgamating a 6-month general practice placement with an Innovative Training Post (ITP) of our choice. Rather than choose a more typical ITP such as rheumatology, oncology, or diabetes, I decided to explore the world of medical writing. Medical writing is not something most GP trainees will h...

BACKGROUND Despite evidence that international clinical electives can be educationally and professionally beneficial to both visiting and in-country trainees, these opportunities remain challenging for American residents to participate in abroad. Additionally, even when logistically possible, they are often poorly structured. The Universities of Washington (UW) and Nairobi (UoN) have enjoyed a ...

Clinical workplaces offer postgraduate trainees a wealth of opportunities to learn from experience. To promote deliberate and meaningful learning self-regulated learning skills are foundational. We explored trainees' learning activities related to patient encounters to better understand what aspects of self-regulated learning contribute to trainees' development, and to explore supervisor's role...

Joint examination skills: are rheumatology specialist registrars adequately trained? SIR, History-taking and clinical examination are the cornerstones of clinical medicine. Most aspects of clinical examination are well covered at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. There is a potential deficit in training in musculoskeletal and joint examination [1, 2]. Rheumatology specialist registrars...

OBJECTIVES Applications for surgical training have declined over the last decade, and anecdotally the costs of training at the expense of the surgical trainee are rising. We aimed to quantify the costs surgical trainees are expected to cover for postgraduate training. DESIGN Prospective, cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS A non-mandatory online questionnaire fo...

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The learners have to take active parts in the teaching learning activities. To make them aware and to help them develop the skills required, the need of the study skills course in medical education early in the part of their training has been realized for the postgraduate residents. The important areas of the study skills course focusing in the requirement of clinical components of the postgrad...

OBJECTIVE Doctors find patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) challenging to manage and some hold negative attitudes towards these patients. It is unknown when and how these views form. This study examines medical trainees' beliefs and influences about MUS. METHODS Semi-structured interviews with 43 medical trainees. Using an iterative approach, initial emergent themes were explor...