title: Postgraduate medical education: rethinking and integrating a complex landscape.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Office of the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW. b.dowton@unsw.edu.au
authors.forename: S Bruce
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Dowton
authors.forename: Marie-Louise
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Stokes
authors.forename: Evan J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Rawstron
authors.forename: Philip R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Pogson
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: 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