The New Zealand medical journal
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Junior doctors face several challenges including how to acquire procedural skills as they embark on their professional careers. There has been a trend away from the less structured opportunistic teaching style of senior doctors towards teaching procedural skills in short courses in skills training centres. ⋯ The procedural skills course produced a significant increase in confidence in the short term, but this decreased unless there was ongoing clinical experience with the procedure. The benefit of short courses is eroded by the lack of reinforcement through continuing experience.
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Comparative Study
Use of psychotropic medicines in residential care facilities for older people in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
To audit the use of various categories of psychotropic medicines in residential care facilities in Hawke's Bay. ⋯ The increase in use of antidepressants is likely to reflect better diagnosis and management of depression in nursing homes. The use of benzodiazepines and sedative medication is probably still excessive.