Comments at work are they appropriate?

[Gomoza2018]

I’ve just finished training and one of the trainers told me I’ve just passed but I need to keep practising which I accepted because it was constructive criticism. However immediately after this they then asked me if I’ve got a medical condition that they should know about that is impacting on my learning. I said I didn’t want to discuss this as it’s my personal health information which I’ve already handled with Occy health. I don’t have a medical condition that impacts on learning so I felt a bit upset by this question especially since I’ve just started and still have quite a bit of training ahead! My question is what is their questions implying and is it even legal for them to ask me about medical conditions? Am I just being hormonal and sensitive or was this question totally inappropriate? Please help! My mind is in overdrive, feeling so useless right now - I feel like quitting the job altogether! Thanks.

But surely it depends if the trainer felt that there were any issues during the teaching and learning, or only in final assessment. Perhaps op appeared to participate and take the information in well but the assessment did not demonstrate this. If the course is short there is less time to identify issues. Either way op seems to have taken the comment very personally and is worried about implications. Unless this is an in-house trainer you will see again or colleagues overheard, nothing further is likely to come of it especially as op dismissed the suggestion. You passed your course, regardless.

The trainer isn’t out to get you and they likely need to feed back on you, if you do have additional needs then you may have performed very well, in spite of them, if you don’t then it maybe questionable why you struggled, I’m sure you weren’t the only person they have trained it was new to.

Maybe your just offended by it, but I think they were trying to help.

If they were a good trainer then I agree @CheeseMmmm that the time to ask that question is before the course.

Nonsense, I have to do far too much training and I’ve never once had a trainer go round all participants asking if they have additional needs before the class.

They obviously wouldn’t ask all the participants in person at the start of the course. Clearly that would be highly inappropriate.
There are such things now as Google forms that can be sent prior to courses. Really quite useful for things like this.

Pre and post course evaluation forms normally suggest speaking to trainer if there is anything they should be aware of.

I'm a trainer in a professional field. My trainee disclosed on day one that he had dyslexia. This was so useful to know. You've know idea. He didn't need to tell me, but meant that we have been able to target training correctly and get him extra support for this.