Consultants face compulsory education

Consultant obstetricians and gynaecologists in Britain will have to continue their medical education, said the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists last week. This will be the first time that continuing medical education has been made compulsory in Britain.

From this month each consultant member of the college will have to enter a programme of continuing medical education and register a minimum of 200 credits over five years. These will be earned from a range of educational …