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Proposals may damage one of finest examples of postgraduate medical education
EDITOR,--Registrars in general practice neither are ill informed about nor misunderstand the proposals for summative assessment, as is suggested by T Stuart Murray and Jacky Hayden respectively.1 2 It is precisely because they perceive both the dangers to training that the plans threaten and the precipitate and unprofessional manner in which they are being implemented that so many future general practitioners are expressing so much concern.
The two authors indicate the inconsistency and lack of rigour that are reflected in the assessment as proposed. One of the principal tenets of the package is that a national standard of competence should be applied. Hayden, however, indicates what many have found--that in some regions, as a result of funding difficulties and practical difficulties, the only component that will be used this year will be the structured trainers' report, which has not yet been fully tested, let alone validated. This makes it difficult to
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