Determining generic standards for specialist registrar training.
Requirements for specialist registrar (SpR) training have been developed by adapting standards already determined for senior house officers in the West Midlands. A consensus of views of chairs of higher specialist training committees on generic requirements for SpR training has been reached by using a Delphi technique. There is a large variation between specialties in the extent that they have been able to reach these standards; some have proved easier to establish than others. Acceptance of the new standards should lead to the delivery of a measurable degree of higher quality education, training and experience for SpRs.
Postgraduate Deanery, West Midlands, UK. rgpalmer@pmde.org
Robert
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Palmer
Stephen
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Field
David
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Wall
D003697:Delphi Technique; D004501:Education, Medical; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D013038:Specialization; D013222:State Medicine; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom