Broad based training is actively discouraged in UK postgraduate medical education

What is it about?

The shift of postgraduate medical education to tick-box competency based progression has grave implications for the training and clinical expertise that doctors will gain, which may cause harm to patients in the long term.

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Why is it important?

There is a worrying shift in postgraduate training of doctors in the UK from broad-based clinical experience to a tick-box competency-based culture which is producing trainees with bulging CVs, but little clinical expertise or acumen that has traditionally formed the basis of a good doctor.