There were three questionnaires that were completed by
participants during the 12-month period (Table 1). The
questionnaires contained questions that provided Likert
scale-based answers accompanied by free text boxes. This
enabled quantitative and qualitative data to be collected
that were anonymised. The first questionnaire focused on
the trainees’ and trainers’ opinions of the pre-pilot WPBAs,
whereas the second and third questionnaires focused on
SLEs and the ARCP process, respectively. The trainers
who participated in the third questionnaire were all ARCP
panel members.
The data from the focus groups and the questionnaires
yielded both quantitative and qualitative data. The qualitative
data were analysed by coding for thematic analysis using the
principles described by Cohen et al.12