New Medical Education Standards Board will lower standards

doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7345.1095

BMJ 2002;324:1095 ( 4 May )

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New Medical Education Standards Board will lower standards

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EDITOR $---$ The government's intended reorganisation of postgraduate medical education received little mention in the BMJ untilPereira Gray's editorial,¹ which outlined the proposals²but gave little analysis. By contrast, the analysis in an editorialin the British Journal of General Practice $---$ whose view we agreewith $---$ was extremely critical.³

The new Medical Education Standards Board, half of whose 24 members are intended to be lay members, will be the single bodyoverseeing curriculums, standards, and the registration of allmedical trainees. It will report direct to the secretary of state,whose responsibility for service provision and training will bea clear conflict ofinterest.

Although the Department of Health's document makes repeated references to the royal colleges sending members to subcommitteemeetings and being extensively consulted, the colleges are explicitlycriticised for not taking NHS needs into account. The exampleis given (paragraph 23, bullet point 7) of an accident and . . . [Full text of this article]

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