Scotland's new chief medical officer welcomes reforms of training

EDITOR,—A recent item in Medicopolitical Digest implied that I (now the chief medical officer in Scotland) was critical of the current reform of postgraduate training.1 This is not the case. I welcome the reforms, and during my chairmanship of the Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education I helped to alter the funding and delivery of postgraduate training. My purpose at the BMA's clinical meeting in Istanbul was to highlight several unresolved issues that could …