Time for training?

Time spent in the clinical environment is the most important aspect of medical education – we need to protect it

“…Training activities outside the clinical environment need to be delivered efficiently to maximise their benefits to training, and the challenge for trainers is to provide this support without reducing clinical time. Doing this may allow us to achieve the Calman target of a six‐year training program .…”

“…This would allow more supervised training to take place in the formative core trainee years, while allowing more independent practice as trainees approach their CCT. Postgraduate curricular changes are complex and time consuming , but supervised clinical time should be the foundation for learning in all healthcare specialities.…”