Patterns and Paradoxes of Trainers' Careers: The Implications for the Influence of Training

Why be bothered with trainers' careers — especially now when training departments are under stress and may have been severely truncated? “What career?” many trainers remark, “we are lucky if we continue to exist as a department.” As I will try and point out, these present problems are not unrelated to a long‐term neglect of trainers' career development.