Teaching on the run tips 11: the junior doctor in difficulty

Lake, Fiona R; Ryan, Gerard

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb07127.x

Topics

medical education

Setting

1 Education Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA.
2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA.

Correspondence:

Acknowledgements:

We would like to thank the teachers and participants in Teaching on the Run courses for their input, and the Medical Training Review Panel, Australian Department of Health and Ageing, for funding support. We also thank Dr Daryl Mackender (Gastroenterologist, Gosford Hospital, NSW) for his list of the “Bs”.

Competing interests:

None identified.

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