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Development of an instrument to measure the clinical learning environment in diagnostic radiology
Author(s) -
Bloomfield L,
Subramaniam R
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1754-9485
pISSN - 1754-9477
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2008.01928.x
Subject(s) - medicine , measure (data warehouse) , medical physics , radiology , data mining , computer science
Summary A clinical learning environment survey instrument was developed that provided insights into diagnostic radiology trainees’ perceptions of the culture and context of the hospital‐based training programme. The survey was completed by trainees allocated to 37 important training hospitals in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore in 2006. The main findings were that most obvious strengths of the diagnostic radiology programme are the wide variety of work‐based learning opportunities and the social atmosphere. These were well regarded in all training sites. Work overload was seen as a significant problem in most hospitals and will probably remain a challenge. The areas that are most likely to repay efforts to bring about change are supervision and feedback. The study provides baseline data against which the influence of changes to the training programme may be evaluated.