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Training in family planning encompasses several disciplines
EDITOR,--P D Woolley seems not only to have misunderstood the editorial by Yvonne Stedman and Max Elstein1 but to be unaware of the developments in family planning and sexual health issues.2Basic training in family planning has been structured for many years, long before training in most other specialties, and includes knowledge of infections. Two years ago the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was founded; it has developed a membership examination (MFFP), which will start this autumn and includes genitourinary medicine in its syllabus. In contrast, doctors can and often do become consultants in genitourinary medicine without experience in family planning or gynaecology.
Family planning is rapidly becoming a consultant led specialty, often by people with broad experience and multiple qualifications, including in genitourinary medicine. As in most services, other clinicians in various grades will always be needed to
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