The development of clinical thinking in trainee physicians: the educator perspective.

Background: An important element of effective clinical practice is the way physicians think when they encounter a clinical situation, with a significant number of trainee physicians challenged by translating their learning into professional practice in the clinical setting. This research explores the perceptions of educators about how trainee physicians develop their clinical thinking in clinical settings. It considers what educators and their colleagues did to help, as well as the nature of the context in which they worked.

How Do Contexts Affect Physicians' Clinical Reasoning? A Narrative Review.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Background Research about clinical reasoning has tended to focus on the individual, assessing their ability to perform clinical reasoning tasks.

General practice tasters for foundation doctors.

Background: General practice (GP) is currently not viewed positively as a career choice, compared with other specialties, with GP training programmes struggling to fill posts. Opportunities to change this mindset in the early years of training are limited. Trainees may find themselves applying for entry into GP specialty training just 3-4 months after completing Foundation Year 1 (FY1), yet there are few GP attachments during FY1 that can provide experience of primary care and positively inform career choice.

Ideas and enhancements related to mobile applications to support type 1 diabetes.

Background: Mobile devices have become increasingly important to young people who now use them to access a wide variety of health-related information. Research and policy related to the integration of health information and support with this technology do not effectively consider the viewpoint of a younger patient. Views of young people with type 1 diabetes are vital in developing quality services and improving their own health-related quality of life (HRQOL), yet research on their lifestyle and use of Web and mobile technology to support their condition and in non-health-related areas is sparse.

Nurse-led triage of acute medical admissions: accurate and time-efficient.

In many hospitals a variety of triage systems are used by senior medical staff to identify likely length of stay (LOS) of acute medical admissions and thus facilitate a streamlined admission under either acute medicine or general internal medicine (GIM). The authors evaluated if senior nursing staff on the medical assessment unit could triage patients depending on their predicted LOS as accurately as consultant acute physicians. Each of 193 medical admissions were independently triaged by both groups to either acute medicine (<48 hours) or GIM (>48 hours) depending on predicted LOS.