Validation may penialise the beleagered "internationals"
Dear Editor,
The international medical community is increasingly fractured by
rules and regulations which prevent training and working outside one
political block. I have specialist qualifiactions which are valid on both
sides of the Atlantic However, it is clear that there is no willingness
to consider how individulas will revalidate our specialist qualifications
in one continent while working on another. The Royal College of
Pediatrics and Child Health, of which I am a member, sent out voluntary,
guidelines for validation of continuing education. This presumably may
become complusory. I wrote to the College asking whether I could use CME
generated here and approved by the University of Colorado towards such a
validation. Several months later, I have still received no reply. When I
was training in England and the USA in the 1980s, I remember how unhelpful
the Royal College of Physcians was about accrediation of training for
those working both in England and abroad.
I expect all the Royal College to be unhelpful to those who wish to retain
their specialist status in Europe while working abroad. I hope I am
wrong.
It remains my belief that those of us who have trained and worked in more
than one country, have often something extra to offer the institutions in
which we work. It would be a pity if in the rush to validation this issue
is considered not worth of addressing by the Royal Colleges
Yours
Nicholas K. Foreman
Director Neuro-Oncology
The Children's Hospital
Denver, Colorado
USA
will The curent move towards validation
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Validation may penialise the beleagered "internationals"
Dear Editor,
The international medical community is increasingly fractured by
rules and regulations which prevent training and working outside one
political block. I have specialist qualifiactions which are valid on both
sides of the Atlantic However, it is clear that there is no willingness
to consider how individulas will revalidate our specialist qualifications
in one continent while working on another. The Royal College of
Pediatrics and Child Health, of which I am a member, sent out voluntary,
guidelines for validation of continuing education. This presumably may
become complusory. I wrote to the College asking whether I could use CME
generated here and approved by the University of Colorado towards such a
validation. Several months later, I have still received no reply. When I
was training in England and the USA in the 1980s, I remember how unhelpful
the Royal College of Physcians was about accrediation of training for
those working both in England and abroad.
I expect all the Royal College to be unhelpful to those who wish to retain
their specialist status in Europe while working abroad. I hope I am
wrong.
It remains my belief that those of us who have trained and worked in more
than one country, have often something extra to offer the institutions in
which we work. It would be a pity if in the rush to validation this issue
is considered not worth of addressing by the Royal Colleges
Yours
Nicholas K. Foreman
Director Neuro-Oncology
The Children's Hospital
Denver, Colorado
USA
will The curent move towards validation
Competing interests: No competing interests