title: Assessment at the end of training--a necessity nuisance.
abstract: If the public are to be assured that surgeons are safe, then there must be some form of competence assessment on which a licence to practice is based. However, the assessment and the licence needs to be both appropriate to the training received by the surgeon and to the requirements of the post they propose to take up. The 'key-concept' described in this paper attempts to address this problem.
authors.affiliation: University of Oxford Medical School, Headington, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bulstrode
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hunt
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D013043:Specialties, Surgical / Q000193:education*; D006113:United Kingdom