Overseas Doctors Training Scheme

BMJ 1994;309:811 (24 September)

Letters

Overseas Doctors Training Scheme

EDITOR, - On behalf of the overseas liaison committee of theRoyal College of Psychiatrists, we wish to comment on the tworecent articles on the Overseas Doctors Training Scheme.^1,2While the authors are rightly critical of past and present deficienciesin training, the picture is far from one of unrelieved gloom.

We are concerned that the scheme may be regarded in the sameway as the situation facing trainees who are not on collegebased schemes. More than half of the doctors granted limitedregistration are on the scheme that exempts doctors from havingto take the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board's examinationand are under the watchful eye of the royal colleges; this schemehas made great strides in addressing the training needs of theseyoung doctors. The Intercollegiate Working Group on OverseasDoctors Training has had an important role in advancing thisprocess. We wish to illustrate . . . [Full text of this article]