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Neurology postgraduate training: what is to be done?

Department of Neurology, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK

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Abbreviations: CCST, certificate of completion of specialist training; DOPS, directly observed procedural skills; HMT, higher medical training; JCHMT, Joint Committee on Higher Medical Training; MiniCEX, mini clinical evaluation exercises; PYA, penultimate year assessment; RITA, record of in-training assessment; SAC, specialist advisory committee; SCOPME, Standing Committee on Postgraduate Medical Education; SpR, specialist registrar grade

Keywords: neurology; training; Calman

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In 1992, Kenneth Calman chaired a working group to reform British postgraduate specialist training. These reforms included a reduction in the duration of specialist training, the replacement of the old senior registrar and registrar grades by a combined specialist registrar grade (SpR), and the creation of a certificate of completion of specialist training (CCST), which would be recognised in all member states of the European Union. This latter recommendation implied the creation of objective setting, induction at the start of any training programme, training agreements, and rotational placements. The CCST would only be awarded once the trainee had "completed specialist training, based on assessment of competence, to a standard compatible with independent practice." How these parameters might be measured was not strictly defined, and differing systems were subsequently organised by the various colleges and specialist societies. No additional resources were made available to NHS Trusts for their . . . [Full text of this article]

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