Medicine is a constantly evolving profession, especially with the advent of rapid advances in
the scientific base that underpins this vocation. In order to ensure that training in medicine is …

The current changes in postgraduate training in the United Kingdom are largely driven by
government rather than the profession, and are aimed at producing a medical workforce …

Objectives The requirement to align the arrangements for postgraduate training in the United
Kingdom with those elsewhere in the European Community provided the opportunity to …

Many of the issues faced by undergraduate medical students and those planning their
curriculum are not new. William Osler, Abraham Flexner and the General Medical Council …

Domestic medical graduate numbers will almost double between 2005 and 2012,
necessitating substantial increases in supervision at prevocational and vocational levels.• …

BACKGROUND As its first task, the Workforce Taskforce was charged by the Minister of
Health with advising on how to streamline the current New Zealand medical education and …

The field of medical education and training has undergone dramatic changes within the past
few years, and continues to evolve. Modernising Medical Careers, changes in the statutory …

The UK shares many characteristics with other western developed countries, including a
current adherence to the view that defining educational outcomes enables improvements in …

An at first sight seemingly coherent, global medical workforce, with clearly recognizable
specialities, subspecialties and primary care doctors, appears at a closer look quite variable …

Interest in the development of medical educators working in the postgraduate sector is
running high. Driven by three interlinked trends—the professionalisation of medical …