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Prevocational medical training in Australia: where does it need to go?
Author(s) -
Paltridge Deborah
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00270.x
Subject(s) - apprenticeship , curriculum , training (meteorology) , medical education , quality (philosophy) , medicine , patient care , nursing , psychology , pedagogy , philosophy , epistemology , meteorology , linguistics , physics
The workplace remains the most important learning environment for junior doctors in their postgraduate years. There is no national curriculum to guide the education of prevocational doctors. The apprenticeship model is under threat, and is not sustainable in the future without significant changes to the system. Supervision is crucial for junior doctors’ learning and for safe, quality patient care.