Irving and Holden are encouraged by an electronic ‘consultation length survey’ where trainees ‘largely recognise that longer consultations are needed in general practice’.1
While this seems an excellent aim, may not the table results — showing trainer consultation length and trainee preference, with the latter preferring longer consultations to those the former actually do — simply indicate we get slicker with experience?
Is there any plan to do a similar survey of the same trainees in the future, when more of the job is second nature?
That would be more likely to support the case being made, if it were to show the same result.
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