"Most of our people are out-of-towners, " says Atul Kelkar, a manager of Smiles, a Bombay model-training agency.

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One to watch, says Charles McGhee, is Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia, where a local newspaper and radio station have moved on campus, providing what's described as the 'medical residency model' - training journalists on the job, as has long happened with doctors.

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Heather Hennessy, a Senior House Officer part-way through her surgical training, is fortunate to have Linda as a role model.

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Its well-structured method of training newly literate women as journalists and democratizing information production provides an easily replicated model of transformative education.

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Studies show even a brief training course using the model for doctors with low patient survey scores has the potential to improve patient-doctor interactions as reported by patients.

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And they could not have a better example to learn from than model pro Alexander, who put his remarkable injury-free campaign down to his daily use of ice baths after training.

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