title: Adding flexibility to physician training.
abstract: Demographic changes among junior doctors are driving demand for increased flexibility in advanced physician training, but flexible training posts are lacking. Suitable flexible training models include flexible full-time, job-share and part-time positions. Major barriers to establishing flexible training positions include difficulty in finding job-share partners, lack of funding for creating supernumerary positions, and concern over equivalence of educational quality compared with full-time training. Pilot flexible training positions should be introduced across the medical specialties and educational outcomes examined prospectively.
authors.affiliation: Storr Liver Unit, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia. suzanne.mahady@gmail.com
authors.forename: Suzanne E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Mahady
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001315:Australia; D002321:Career Choice; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D017748:Time Management; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance; D014941:Work Simplification