Table 1.
Example interviewee quotes from semi-structured interviews, arranged in the emerging themes from the thematic analysis coding.
| Theme | Interviewee quotes |
|---|---|
| 1. Learning the subject matter | Trainees A) “There's so much to get through. It kinda takes over your life. Every 6 months ... in the library like a madman” B) “It's weird because you learn how to describe these bone lesions, but you don't know what they look like – a bit silly really.” C) “It's nice seeing other people in the group teaching ... It's more sociable. But to learn the lists you have to sit down with Chapman [book name] and just keep going through them.” D) “I enjoyed revising for the 2Bs much more than the 2As. You feel like you're learning stuff that's actually useful for the job.” |
| Trainers E) “You can tell they've improved when they come back from the DGH [District General Hospital] then tell you the differential for something while you're in the middle of looking it up!” F) “I keep telling them you've got to know your lists. The ones that listen pass.” | |
| 2. Learning the role | Trainees A) “When there's lots of urgent work to do it's important to prioritise. Every clinician thinks their scan's most important.” B) “I had one boss who had a go at me for “sitting on the fence” too much ... So I changed my reports and became more definitive.” C) “Modules on statistics are useful ... But I think your attitude towards [risk] is a really personal thing.” D) “The list of phrases were useful. But the way they suggest you use them is just one person's view.” E) “Some teams would fry a patient with CT scans every day they could. When you tell the FY1 the risk of cancer associated with their CT request you often hear a stunned silence over the phone. I tell them to go away and discuss it with their registrar.” |
| Trainers F) “... only the radiologist can tell you which is going to be the most useful test ... [certain specialities] just don't get that some tests just aren't good enough to pick up the pathology ... and that some tests will just give you non-specific results.” G) “We're clinical (emphasised) radiologists ... We need to remind the other specialties that were not just technicians ...” H) “Can you call back and put 100,000 people through invasive tests to pick up one cancer, which may not even affect that patient's outcome?” In some situations there are no black-and-white answers.” | |
| 3. E-learning preferences | Trainees A) “The ones rated five stars tend to have lots of cases with good annotations and explanations ... Some of the modules are just full of text ... You can get that from a textbook.” B) “The best ones are the ones where you can test yourself - and then the answer has the main points annotated on the imaging. Then it's clear where you've gone wrong.” C) “The modules which work through differentials are more useful than modules that go through a disease in detail.” |
| Trainers D) “The R-ITI's been a good way to get the trainees to do some background reading before our sessions. I find there's a lot less time to teach now ... If the trainees know a bit to start with, we can make better use of our time together.” |