Calman trainees are satisfied with specialist training

Trainees think the educational content of their posts has improved after the Calman reforms of specialist training. The reforms, with more emphasis on educational supervision and less on experiential learning, seemed likely to fail without the injection of major new resources, especially more consultants. On p 832 Paice et al describe two surveys of trainee satisfaction in North Thames, the largest deanery in the United Kingdom, before and after the reforms. They show that consultant input into educational objective setting, induction, appraisal, and clinical supervision improved significantly in the two years after transition to the new system. The improvements affected all grades, specialties, and types of NHS trust and must have represented considerable time and effort for the consultant trainers.

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Trainee satisfaction before and after the Calman reforms of specialist training: questionnaire survey

Elisabeth Paice, Maryanne Aitken, George Cowan, and Shelley Heard
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