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Emergency medicine specialty training recruitment is “highest ever,” says HEE

BMJ 2014; 349 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5297 (Published 22 August 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g5297
  1. Abi Rimmer
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More doctors than ever before have been recruited to the first year of acute care common stem emergency medicine specialty and core training (ACCS CT/ST1), Health Education England (HEE) has said.

Board papers published on the organisation’s website said, “ACCS CT/ST1 entry in 2014 has significantly improved and is the highest ever.”1 HEE added that 759 people applied to ACCS CT/ST1 in 2014 and that 344 appointments were made. “This is an increase of 108 additional appointments in 2014,” it said. And last month HEE carried out a second round of recruitment for emergency medicine posts in England, India, and Dubai.2

The board paper also showed that, in the first round of recruitment, 60 appointments had been made to a run-through training programme developed by Health Education Yorkshire and the Humber, the lead local education training board (LETB) for emergency medicine.3

The College of Emergency Medicine welcomed the findings but said that it still needed to counter “leakage” from the specialty caused by consultants emigrating. Cliff Mann, president of the college, said, “Emergency medicine is a great profession, marred only by the need to encourage more doctors into the specialty.

“It is good news that we have larger numbers of doctors choosing emergency medicine this year. Our challenge will hopefully move now from recruitment to retention, so that we keep these new doctors in the specialty for many years to come.”

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