PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Paul Grant
AU  - Munachiso Nwokolo
AU  - Carol Postlethwaite
TI  - Essential and desirable: making the most of your postgraduate training
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.14-2-145
DP  - 2014 Apr 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 145--148
VI  - 14
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/14/2/145.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/14/2/145.full
SO  - Clin Med2014 Apr 01; 14
AB  - Newly qualified Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) holders may be deficient in a range of skills relevant to the work of a consultant physician, often due to a lack of adequate career planning. Good clinical skills and a patient-centred approach are extremely important, but there is work to suggest that the non-medical aspects of consultant work are not sufficiently addressed during higher specialist training.