Top Tips from Greg

How to provide the best training experience

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Work out what your trainees are good at already. Let them do what they are good at v rarely (just for self valediction and confidence boost). They will always be good at what they are good at

Work out what they aren't good at. Make them do it. Easy jobs at first then increasing difficulty

They are v clever people. Let them prove it

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Give them decent chunky jobs that require sizeable period of time. And require lots of brain power. Make sure they are interesting jobs and not noddy jobs

Stretch them as far as they appear willing to be stretched

Exposure to lots of different types of work And lots of different types of people and

functions ..... Is important

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Make sure they create their own network of "experts to ask" - methodoligical and topic specific experts. Reduces reliance on trainer. More satisfying for trainee

Avoid giving your trainees the rubbish jobs that nobody else wants to do

Avoid giving trainees responsibilities tasks that are ongoing and can't be picked up after they leave (as there is nobody to do so)........ Hep C springs to mind - a classic "give it to an spr as there is nobody else" job

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Recognise that the trainee might never be part of the "proper" team - but they do want to be involved

Personally I don't bring trainees to consultant in ph meetings (they are dull!)

Make sure you take your trainees to the "big" meetings. You know the ones - the big powows with big cheeses

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Don't micromanage. They are there to learn - don't over bollock them if they don't quite get it / understand it or muck up first time