Nicholas Research Award. Clinical instructors in radiography. 1. A current review

The research resulted in a number of interesting findings which may be summarised as follows: Although it is College policy that all clinical instructors should be on the staff of a school of radiography, this was proved to be far from the case; however, the problem of conflict of loyalties caused by this situation did indeed exist amongst those clinical instructors employed by the departments. I intend to return to this dilemma in a later article. Although most clinical instructors were undertaking similar duties, the amounts of time devoted to them varied greatly. In particular those instructors who had large numbers of students under their responsibility spent proportionately longer per week on administration. Those clinical instructors with smaller numbers of students (where based in departments) were usually expected to carry out other duties, not connected with student training. Some clinical instructors were finding themselves disadvantaged by the new training allowances as their colleagues were now being paid for their part in training whereas they were not.