TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial comment: Should trainees be the ‘eyes and the ears’ of both good and bad practice in hospitals? JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - 13 LP - 14 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.15.006 VL - 2 IS - 1 AU - Daniel Melley AU - Edward Nicol Y1 - 2015/02/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/2/1/13.abstract N2 - Jason Sarfo-Annin should be congratulated for his Teale Essay Prize-winning paper, published in this issue, which is an engaging attempt to highlight the potential of trainees as agents of change in a brave new world of quality improvement (QI). He makes a number of very valid observations regarding the barriers which trainees encounter and proposes solutions which, at the very least, challenge the medical establishment to offer alternatives. As notable as the explicit content of the essay is the barely concealed frustration of a trainee aware of the many benefits of a health service reorganised to deliver patient-centred and safe care, knowing that not only the system, but also his older colleagues, have repeatedly failed to learn and respond. He is correct to suggest that peripatetic trainees working in ward-based roles are in a unique position, first, to be able to judge their new institutions with a ‘fresh set of eyes’, second, to compare practice between the organisations through which they have rotated and, third, to cross-pollinate innovation. It is also reasonable to argue that … ER -