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.

Doctors with Asperger's: the impact of a diagnosis.

Background: Asperger syndrome (AS) is part of a spectrum of disorders encompassing difficulties with social interaction that may result in specific educational needs for doctors in training. There is currently limited research on the impact of AS on working as a doctor.

Methods: This is a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews to explore the perceptions of trainees diagnosed with AS following input from a professional support service, and the perspectives of the staff involved in their professional development.

Do trainees feel that they belong to a team?

Background: Postgraduate medical education has undergone significant reorganisation in recent years, with changes to the traditional apprenticeship model and an increasing reliance on shift working. The importance of teamwork in clinical care is well established; however, there is little literature on the extent to which trainees actually feel part of a team in the context of current working patterns.

Method: This is a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews of medical and surgical trainees.

Carbamazepine vs lithium in the treatment and prophylaxis of mania.

Fifty-four acutely manic patients were allocated to treatment on a double-blind basis with either carbamazepine or lithium carbonate. The short-term effects of treatment were studied over a period of six weeks and the longer term, prophylactic, effects over a period of up to a year. Additional 'rescue' medication was allowed when clinically indicated.