SHOs undertaking posts in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary A&E department received an induction programme consisting of twelve hour-long tutorials covering a range of basic emergency medicine topics. These sessions were broadcast simultaneously to similar groups of new SHOs based in peripheral A&E department in the remote regions of Elgin, Shetland and Stornoway using the Sony 1600 videoconferencing system. A short multiple-choice paper, based on the core material from the induction course, was administered to all SHOs before and after the induction programme.  In addition to this, a questionnaire asked respondents to rate each lecture for relevance, presentation and content.
