Postgraduate medical education: rethinking and integrating a complex landscape.
A key responsibility of the healthcare system is to develop a sustainable workforce through education and training. The complexity of postgraduate medical education and training in Australia requires: recognition that there are many stakeholders (junior medical officers, registrars, teaching clinicians, health departments, governments, colleges and society) with overlapping but competing interests and responsibilities; a national dialogue to clarify the necessary resource investments and to assign explicit accountabilities; and improved coordination and governance, while maintaining appropriate flexibility. In other countries, stronger mechanisms of governance for oversight of postgraduate medical education have emerged, and Australia can learn from these.
Dowton
S Bruce
SB
Office of the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW. b.dowton@unsw.edu.au
Stokes
Marie-Louise
ML
Rawstron
Evan J
EJ
Pogson
Philip R
PR
Brown
Mark A
MA
D000068:Accreditation / Q000458:organization & administration; D001315:Australia; D002170:Canada; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States