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Ready for revalidation starts 3 December


Information for doctors in training


DOCTORS IN TRAINING THE GMC has launched its long-delayed programme for revalidation of all licensed doctors in the UK – including those in FY2 and specialty training. All trainees will have a


“designated body” with a “responsible officer” (RO) to support revalidation. The RO will base their recommendation to revalidate on participation in the Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP) process or the equivalent Record of In-Training Assessment (RITA). This means that trainees need to be engaged in and meeting the assessments and curriculum requirements of their training programmes.


REVALIDATION LAUNCH FOR In general the timing of


revalidation will depend on your period of training. If your training lasts less than five years, your first revalidation will be at the point of eligibility for CCT. If longer than five years, you will be revalidated five years after full registration with a licence to practise, and again at the point of eligibility for CCT.


1 Responsible officers are either


your postgraduate dean or in Scotland the medical director for NHS Education Scotland (NES). More information can be found on the GMC website (www.tinyurl. com/895yuo9), including a leaflet that you can download.


TRAINEE SUCCESS VARIES BY MEDICAL SCHOOL


TRAINEE doctors who qualified from certain medical schools were more likely than others to be appointed to UK specialty training posts, according to a new survey. Most Foundation


Year 2 doctors who


had graduated from Cambridge University (86.4 per cent) were appointed to UK specialty training (including general practice), followed by Keele University graduates (85.9 per cent) and Oxford University (83.7 per cent). Universities where the fewest number of F2s were appointed to UK ST include Brighton and Sussex Medical School (44.9 per cent), Bristol (48.6 per cent) and Southampton (55 per cent). Some of the doctors who were not appointed to UK ST chose other UK posts, took a career break or decided to work abroad. The figures were revealed in a report from the UK Foundation


Programme Office (UKFPO) who surveyed F2 doctors at all 25 UK foundation schools. Nearly all 7,346 F2s who successfully completed training in August 2012 responded, including 6,658 on the Foundation Programme and 433 on the Academic Foundation Programme. Foundation schools showing the highest percentage of trainees


appointed to UK ST include Coventry and Warwick (83.5 per cent), Birmingham (83.2 per cent) and LNR (82.8 per cent). The lowest include Severn (48.3 per cent), Wales (57.4 per cent) and Wessex (59.1 per cent). The survey showed that, on the whole, fewer trainee doctors


found UK ST posts in 2012 compared to the previous year. Only 67 per cent of F2s were appointed to a post in 2012, a slight fall on the previous year’s figure of 71.3 per cent. A further 6.6 per cent said they had found jobs outside the UK. Of the 4,753 doctors appointed to a UK specialty training post,


more than half (2,773) were female and just over a third (1,826) were male. The remaining 154 (3.2 per cent) were unknown or did not specify.


The most popular specialty training was general practice, chosen MEDICAL STUDENT NUMBERS


SHOULD BE CUT THE number of students accepted to medical school should be reduced by two per cent in England, according to a government- commissioned report. The cut should start with the 2013 intake with the aim of balancing workforce supply and demand from 2025. This will ensure money is not wasted training more doctors than the NHS needs, said health minister Dan Poulter. Forecasts predict demand for GPs will outstrip supply but that hospital doctors supply would exceed demand, unless “rebalancing” from other specialties to general practice occurred.


by around one third of F2s (1,717), while less than five per cent (222) chose core psychiatric training. The most common examination sat by doctors during F2 was the MRCP (Royal College of Physicians) followed by MRCS (Royal College of Surgeons), MRCPCH (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health) and the MRCOG (Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology). Read the report at www.tinyurl.com/b6h99vw


PATIENTS TO RATE DOCTORS


ON SERVICE PATIENTS are to be given the power to rate the service provided by their doctor under new plans announced by the prime minister. David Cameron said a new “friends and family” test would be


introduced in every hospital in England from April with a view to later extending it to GP practices and community hospitals. Under the test, patients and staff would be asked whether they


would recommend the service to a friend or relative, in a bid to expose unacceptable standards of care. Mr Cameron said it should be applied to all NHS services. The test is part of a broad range of measures aimed at raising


standards of patient care. More support is to be offered to nurses, healthcare assistants and wider NHS staff including better training and career development opportunities.


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