Foundation year for newly qualified doctors: A house officer writes

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7518.697

BMJ 2005;331:697 (24 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7518.697

Letter

Foundation year for newly qualified doctors

A house officer writes

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EDITOR—Although I sympathise to an extent with the viewsof the foundation programme's organisers and the ModernisingMedical Careers quango,¹ I think that there are some big defects.This is based on my experience as working as a house officer.

Postgraduate training seems to have been hijacked by self styledmedical educationists who come mainly from academia and havea different agenda from the many trained doctors and doctorsin training who work on the coalface of clinical medicine.

In the reams of literature and hours of talks it seems thatcare for patients has been forgotten, with numerous assessments(with funny names) of topics and skills learnt at medical schooland talk of audit and portfolios. I just want to do a good jobfor my patients, and that is what I have been eagerly waitingfor since my finals.

I recognise that we need to have . . . [Full text of this article]

Rahul Velineni, house officer

Medway Maritime Hospital, Kent ME7 5NY rahulvelineni@gmail.com