Clinical exposure of interns during a general practice placement.

Background: For more than a decade, junior doctors have undertaken general practice rotations; however, little is known about the breadth of medical conditions seen. This study aims to determine the breadth of clinical presentations encountered by interns during a rotation.

Methods: Data were collected on all patients seen by interns at an RA-2 general practice during 2012-13.

General practice placements for pre-registration junior doctors: adding value to intern education and training.

Objective: To examine pre-registration junior doctors' perceptions of the value of a general practice term in their training program.

Design, Setting And Participants: Semi-structured interviews, in five teaching hospitals in South Australia in 2005, with 20 pre-registration junior doctors (interns) who had completed a general practice term and at least one core term of intern training.

Main Outcome Measure: Comparisons between general practice and teaching hospital core training terms with respect to the domains of junior doctor education.

Comparison of three simulation-based training methods for management of medical emergencies.

Trainee medical officers (TMOs) participated in a study comparing three methods of simulation-based training to treat medical emergencies occurring in a hospital setting. The methods were: All groups had the same total teaching time. Participants (n=61) had an initial (pre-training) assessment by written tests, self assessment and simulations of medical emergencies ('VT' and 'HYPOglycaemia').