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Breaking bad news: an interactive web-based e-learning package
Foundation Year One (FY1) trainees must become competent in a range of specific skills, knowledge and attitudes, achieved through structured teaching1 and workplace learning.
Delivering learning in core Foundation Programme competencies involves several challenges. Lecture-based methods for developing medical knowledge may not be the most effective.2 Traditionally poor attendance at formal education programmes for learners at this level of medical training3 may deteriorate further with new working hours (European Working Time Directive). Ensuring a consistent trainee learning experience and equivalent access to learning is essential and this is particularly relevant with multiple, geographically dispersed, clinical sites. Changes in health care delivery have increased demands on academic faculty members, leaving less time for teaching, so there was an urgent need to identify a method of delivering learning that takes into account shift-working patterns without increasing the demands on teaching staff to deliver repeated sessions of face-to-face tuition.
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