title: Equipping our front-line managers: a national program for the Professional Development of Registrars.
abstract: When prevocational medical trainees become registrars, they have increasing responsibilities for ensuring safe, effective, and timely delivery of health care, while simultaneously performing a number of managerial and leadership roles. Registrars do not currently receive training for their roles as front-line managers, despite this being an identified need by trainees and the health care workers with whom they interact. The national program for the Professional Development of Registrars is a soundly based, well developed and successful generic program that could be applied in a wide variety of postgraduate arenas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Dandenong Hospital (Southern Health Network), Melbourne, VIC, Australia. andrew.block@med.monash.edu.au
authors.forename: Andrew A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Block
authors.forename: Jagdishwar
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Anne M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Kanaris
authors.forename: Barry P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: McGrath
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D001315:Australia; D002321:Career Choice; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D010557:Personnel Administration, Hospital; D010559:Personnel Management; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011361:Professional Competence; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation