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The BMJ Interview: Sir John Tooke

Tony Delamothe interviews Sir John Tooke about his report concerning junior doctors' training

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Professor Sir John Tooke is dean of the Peninsula Medical School. He led the successful bid for the creation of the Peninsula Dental School, awarded in 2006 and is the inaugural executive dean of the new, integrated Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. He graduated from Oxford in 1974, and his clinical and research interests in diabetes and vascular medicine continue.

In April 2007, Professor Tooke was asked by the government to investigate the failed implementation of the government's Modernising Medical Careers programme.

Tony Delamothe is deputy editor of the BMJ and editor in chief of bmj.com.

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Read recent BMJ articles on the Tooke report:

• Modernising Medical Careers: final report
• Tooke report wants government to step back from medical training
• Tooke inquiry calls for major overhaul of specialist training
• Doctors' leaders partly to blame for recruitment chaos, MPs told
• New system threatens UK clinical research

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