Development of teaching, mentoring and supervision skills for basic training registrars: a frustrated apprenticeship?

Background: Teaching, mentoring and supervision (TMS) are fundamental skills with a specific commitment within the Royal Australasian College of Physicians professional practice framework. The new basic training standards include 'use of appropriate educational techniques to facilitate the learning of peers, junior colleagues and other health professionals and to provide supervision for junior colleagues' but it is unclear how basic physician trainees and equivalent grade doctors (hereinafter 'registrars') will provide, learn or develop TMS skills.

Aims: To explore how registrars provide, learn and develop TMS skills.

Symbolic sexism: superficial or serious bias? An investigation into images on patient call bells.

Objectives: To determine whether gendered symbols on patient call bells are restricted to our hospital or are examples of an international practice that perpetuates gender stereotypes and occupational segregation.

Setting: Multicentre, international study of hospital equipment, 2018.

Main Outcome Measure: Types of symbols on patient call bells.