| Emergency medicine seeks to extend training |
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| Friday, 25 September 2009 | |
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A report on Channel4 News has revealed that the College of Emergency Medicine is considering extending training by a year. This will need to be approved by PMETB.
The report quotes Don MacKechnie of the College of Emergency Medicine who said: "We've just lost too many hours out of the system for the trainees to acquire those competencies they require to become consultants in the speciality." It also quotes an unnamed DH spokesperson who states "There is no evidence to suggest that training has been compromised through the introduction of the working time regulations." This seems to be the tip of the iceberg. Several other Colleges are reportedly looking at extending training periods. Surely PMETB should be proactive, and should be reviewing all the training programmes they approved a few years ago in the light of new working and training patterns. blog comments powered by Disqus |