Planning the medical workforce : second report / Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee.

  • Great Britain. Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee
Date:
1995
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    2 PROGRESS ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM OUR FIRST REPORT INTRODUCTION Fed | The recommendations we made in our first report covered several different aspects of the structure and training of the medical workforce. This chapter monitors progress on the implementation of each of these recommendations. PROGRESS ON INDIVIDUAL RECOMMENDATIONS Flexible Working and Training ad We recommend that the numbers of part-time posts in all training grades are increased. At the same time there should be a recognition that part- time training is of equal quality with that gained on a full time basis. (1992) zen For many years centrally administered schemes to promote flexible training have had only limited success. The difficulties of obtaining manpower and educational approval and funding, together with the widely held notion that these posts provided second rate training for second rate candidates and took inordinately long to complete, meant that uptake of flexible training was low and the status of trainees even lower. Much has changed in the last five years, although some of the logistical difficulties remain. As graduates from the flexible training schemes move out into the career grades with considerable success, the demand for, and status of, flexible training posts is steadily increasing. 2.4 Progress in changing attitudes to flexible working has accelerated largely because of the growing realisation that the intake to medical schools is now over 50% female and that many of these graduates may not wish to work full-time for periods of their postgraduate training or early career grade years. Interestingly there is now a substantial attitudinal change amongst male doctors, many of whom now also wish to work part-time for periods during their career. 2.5 Some of the recent developments in this area do not flow directly from our first report but happily coincide with the implementation of our recommendation. The work of the Joint Working Party on Flexible Training', Postgraduate Deans and Associate Deans, the Medical Royal Colleges and the Medical Women’s Federation has been instrumental in bringing about changes in England. A scheme to promote flexible working for doctors in the training grades in Scotland was introduced in April 1993, following the report of the sub-committee of the Advisory Committee on Medical Establishments on part time training and working for doctors in Scotland. Flexible Training, Report of the Joint Working Party. NHS Management Executive Apress
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