GMC rejects call for enquiry into MTAS |  | | In October this year Remedy wrote to the GMC calling for an investigation into the disasters of MTAS and Specialty Selection and Recruitment (SSR) and the role of the senior doctors responsible for it. Over 1600 people supported this call, making it surely the most called-for professional referral to the GMC in medical history. | We asked them to investigate whether their professional and managerial actions and conduct in relation to MTAS/SSR fell below the high standards outlined in ‘Management for Doctors’. We also asked if their deficient performance was so significant that their actions would amount to misconduct or deficient professional performance and would impair their fitness to practice in this managerial field of work. |
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 | | How much does it cost to train? Have the costs of Training gone up? In these recession-filled times then the costs of training are becoming increasingly important. How much are people spending on exams, compulsory registrations with Colleges, websites and other organisations? Are Trusts and Deaneries paying study leave as they should, or is the money being snaffled en route We would really appreciate 5-10 minutes of your time to fill out a short survey. In the current credit crunch climate and with recent major changes to the training and organisation of junior doctors (namely MMC) we feel it would be invaluable to see how junior doctors are really getting on with progressing in their postgraduate education and whether money is a major issue. |
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 | | There has recently been great interest in defining the role of the Doctor. RemedyUK welcomes the work that has gone into developing this statement. Our own view is that the role should encompass Leadership, expertise, and an understanding of the individual nature of health care. |
We have written a fuller statement which defines this in more detail. |
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 | | Anyone applying for Core Medical Training (CMT in newspeak, formerly known as a medical SHO) will be expected to sit the GP Knowledge Test on February 21st. This is the same test that is taken by applicants to General Practice, and is taken under exam conditions. |
The applicants to CMT will sit the exam, but their scores will not count towards their overall score. They are sitting it as a research exercise in order to set a benchmark and to figure out whether the test correlates with traditional recruitment methods. More details can be found here.Remedy supports the idea of a centralised matching/allocation process, and also supports the idea of a more uniform approach. But there are two issues that we are unhappy about. |
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 | | Our lawyers Leigh Day have written on our behalf to the GMC, regarding the Medical Training Appointments System (MTAS), Specialty Selection and Recruitment (SSR) and Modernising Medical Careers (MMC). |
We have requested that some of the senior doctors be investigated for their role as managers integrally involved in the introduction of this. We have asked the GMC to investigate whether their professional and managerial actions and conduct in relation to SSR/MTAS fell seriously below the high standards that are expected by the profession, as laid out in ‘Management for Doctors’ and elsewhere, and whether their deficient performance, and their failure to meet the published GMC Guidance for Doctors in management roles, was so significant that their actions would amount to misconduct and/or deficient professional performance and would impair their fitness to practice in this managerial field of work under section 35C of the Medical Act 1983 (“the 1983 Act”). |
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