On-the-Job Training for Surgeons : A Practical Guide

Based on a research and development study, this practical guide to training surgeons outlines the nature of on-the-job training, and describes the features of "best practice" for both trainers and trainees in a model of coaching that extends and refines the old emphasis on "osmosis".

This new approach to coaching merges training and service, so that training contributes to service rather than being an obstacle to it.The Calman reforms in the New Deal mean that the training of junior doctors is an issue of great importance.

Junior doctors particularly value informal or "on-the-job" training.

The book was written to provide guidance on how to put the apprenticeship model into effective practice.There are practical sections on the techniques of teaching and learning, such as asking questions, telling and explaining, getting and giving feedback.

These are followed by sections that offer effective practices for trainers and trainees in operating theatres, in clinics and on the ward.

Useful, photocopiable "action points" are provided.The book should be of interest to those working in surgical departments, as well as to anaesthetists and radiologists.