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Mashup Score: 2The GMC’s future vision for medical training must be challenged - 1 month(s) ago
On 12 March the General Medical Council (GMC) published Our Vision for the Future of Medical Education and Training .1 This was accompanied by an explanatory blog from Colin Melville,2 the GMC’s medical director and director of education and standards, in which he queried whether the current system of undergraduate and postgraduate medical training was “fit for purpose” and suggested that “medical education needs transformation.” An enthusiastic and uncritical endorsement was published the next day by the three Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.3 Readers might wonder why this “vision” is even worthy of comment. But, as with so many policy documents that pass by the attention of jobbing clinicians busy with patient care, both the policy statement and the accompanying blog bear further scrutiny. The GMC outlines changes in three key areas of undergraduate and postgraduate training: Superficially, this all seems completely reasonable. The teaching of doctors h
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Mashup Score: 55
We were greatly disappointed when, in February, NHS England announced that preference informed allocation (PIA) will be used to allocate Specialised Foundation Programme (SFP) posts in England henceforth, starting in 2024.1 The responsible bodies in the devolved nations have indicated that they will follow suit. This decision has been taken despite numerous attempts over the past year to engage with NHS England and the UK Foundation Programme Office to discuss alternative approaches. Warnings from across academia, including from medical students, doctors in training, clinical academics in training, the Integrated Academic Training Advisory Committee, the British Medical Association, Specialised Foundation School leads, senior clinical academics, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Clinical Academic Training Forum (CATF) that the introduction of PIA for SFPs would be unwelcome have gone unheeded.
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Mashup Score: 54
We were greatly disappointed when, in February, NHS England announced that preference informed allocation (PIA) will be used to allocate Specialised Foundation Programme (SFP) posts in England henceforth, starting in 2024.1 The responsible bodies in the devolved nations have indicated that they will follow suit. This decision has been taken despite numerous attempts over the past year to engage with NHS England and the UK Foundation Programme Office to discuss alternative approaches. Warnings from across academia, including from medical students, doctors in training, clinical academics in training, the Integrated Academic Training Advisory Committee, the British Medical Association, Specialised Foundation School leads, senior clinical academics, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Clinical Academic Training Forum (CATF) that the introduction of PIA for SFPs would be unwelcome have gone unheeded.
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Mashup Score: 0
Research by the King’s Fund and Manchester University (Smithson R. et al., 2018) found that CQC’s regulation (in particular its inspections, reports and ratings) impacted providers in many different ways. The research concluded that the value and purpose of regulation is rarely contested by providers, but the way in which it is practiced and experienced makes all the difference. It stated: “That does not mean that regulatory standards and procedures do not matter, but that the human interactions and
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Mashup Score: 2Three royal colleges of physicians welcome GMC vision to develop - 2 month(s) ago
Ambitious plans to develop, revise and adapt education and training for medical students and doctors have today (Wednesday 13 March) been welcomed by the three UK royal colleges of physicians.
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Mashup Score: 299I’ve spent a lifetime dreading the loss of a parent. And now it’s finally happened | Adrian Chiles - 2 month(s) ago
I am shocked at how shocked I am. Why are we so unprepared when the inevitable comes to pass, asks Adrian Chiles
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Mashup Score: 26David Oliver: Senior medical leaders have mishandled doctors’ concerns over physician and anaesthesia associates - 2 month(s) ago
On 13 March the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) held an extraordinary general meeting of fellows to discuss the role of physician associates (PAs) in the NHS.1 Such meetings have been rare events in the college’s history. Its members and fellows aren’t known for being radical firebrands, and medical royal colleges are not trade unions or single issue campaigning charities. We seem to have reached a tipping point on PAs and other medical associate professionals such as anaesthesia associates (AAs).2 I believe that this topic is a lightning rod for a host of other issues doctors are concerned about. I’ve worked happily with PAs for several years and always found them to be professional and valued members of the clinical team. I know from many conversations how upsetting the current febrile atmosphere is. They didn’t bring the current controversy on themselves, and the nature of some attacks on social media is disturbing. Nonetheless, the concerns being raised are valid, overdue, and in
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Mashup Score: 1Natalie King: Medical associate professionals—we need to challenge traditional hierarchy to keep patients at the centre of what we do - The BMJ - 2 month(s) ago
Not allowing PAs to become senior decision makers when they have attained a level of experience and competence is a waste of their expertise, says Natalie King Having supported the […]More…
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Mashup Score: 20How to model life’s trajectory from major diagnosis to death - 2 month(s) ago
How do we model our lives from the time of a major diagnosis to death? Illness trajectories are one method, and they can help frame a conversation about what life will be like with a progressive illness. The three characteristic trajectories of decline are rapid (typically cancer), intermittent (declining organ function), and gradual (advanced frailty, neurological conditions, or major stroke). They can be used to inform person centred care and enable advance care planning. The trajectories may appear abstract, but the lives they describe are very real. Scott Murray and colleagues now propose a fourth trajectory to understand the lives of people with multimorbidity (doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-067896).1 Illness trajectories consider physical, social, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of wellbeing, which are best depicted in graphical form. The trajectory for multimorbidity …
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Mashup Score: 2Saving the NHS: the Blithering Health Commission - 3 month(s) ago
The Blithering patient participation group, members of the integrated care board, experts by celebrity and the health and leisure editor of the Blithering Times & Argus have come together for a once-in-a-lunchtime conversation about the future of the NHS. Julian Patterson reports on the findings of the first Blithering Health …
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