Career Focus
Briefing
BMJ 1998; 317 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.317.7153.3b (Published 25 July 1998) Cite this as: BMJ 1998;317:S3b-7153
- Martin S Mills, Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St Michael's Hospital, Bristol BS2 8EG
Quality control in postgraduate training
EDITOR - Sharif and Afnan(1) suggest pass rates at membership and fellowship examinations as a method of assessing the quality of postgraduate specialist training. Whilst pass rate data would be easy to collect, the information would be of limited value in assessing training programmes and could even be detrimental. I am not aware of any research linking …