Table 1.

Qualitative feedback

Domain	Quotes from students
General	‘Totally relevant to being an F1!’ ‘Interactive, practical, and encouraging. It was Fantastic!’ ‘Thank you! The best prep for practice day we’ve had. It would be better to have more practical days like this and less lectures’ ‘Really useful picking on key topics – the only useful preparation for practice so far as it applies to everyone up and down the country’ ‘On the spot feedback was great’ ‘Having practical sessions covering what we have learnt in lectures, using practical skills helped cement the theory in my mind’ ‘Teaching like this much earlier and more frequently in medical school – much more relevant than much of what we learn’ ‘More sessions like this and less lectures please’ ‘Handover and Ward Round sessions were surprisingly useful’
Prescribing	‘Prescribing session was excellent’ ‘Having the pharmacists available was really helpful’ ‘Prescribing theory and actually writing prescription was really useful’ ‘It was extremely useful to learn how to prescribe insulin, analgesia, fluids, blood products and antibiotics’ ‘Insulin prescribing station was excellent’ ‘Having small groups in this session was helpful’ ‘This needed a longer session’ ‘More prescribing sessions, for example having a similar session before finals as practice makes perfect’
Ward rounds	‘Very insightful session’ ‘This session was excellent’ ‘The ward round feedback was great’ ‘A real eye opener’ ‘How to run a ward round was a very useful session. It was good to try to present a patient and keep records in real time’ ‘More of these sessions throughout training’ ‘More time on this session would be good so that everyone gets a chance to lead’
Handover	‘The handover session was invaluable’ ‘Handover was really helpful – hadn’t prioritized receiving information before’ ‘Practicing receiving handovers was a first and thoroughly useful’ ‘Practice handovers were very useful and constructive’ ‘More handover sessions please’
Lessons learnt	‘This session was really interesting’ ‘More cases in lessons learnt would be good’ ‘Could this session be shortened to allow for longer in the prescribing session’