Policy responses and statements
Background: NHS Education for Scotland (NES) requested comments on the developing framework to support the Quality Management of postgraduate medical education and training in Scotland. This was set out in the circulated papers. The introduction of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) has resulted in fundamental changes to the organisation and delivery of postgraduate medical education and training across the UK. At the same time, the establishment of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) as the UK statutory regulator for this area (a responsibility which it shares with the GMC for the first year of training) has led to the need for new structures and processes for the overall quality assurance of training. This framework is an attempt to develop, for Scotland, a framework which will ensure that the quality of postgraduate medical education and training in Scotland remains of a high standard. PMETB has published a quality framework which indicates that they will be responsible for Quality Assurance. Postgraduate Deaneries will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of training to an appropriate standard, and will be responsible for Quality Management. Health Boards are responsible for the employment of doctors in training and are increasingly being held accountable for the educational governance to support that training - they will be responsible for Quality Control. PMETB also has sole responsibility for approving training posts and programmes, and for approving the curricula and assessment systems, which these programmes seek to deliver. They have made it clear that the Medical Royal Colleges have a key role in providing external scrutiny of these processes. This consultation document builds on the PMETB Quality Framework, setting out revised arrangements to ensure that NES can deliver training to the standards required. These arrangements represent a practical and robust framework, sufficiently flexible to meet the significant differences in the size, service and specialties across Scotland. The arrangements build and depend for their success on a strong partnership of the service, the Royal Colleges, Universities, the profession and many others working together with NES. Much of this framework is already in place and these proposals aim to make explicit existing best practice.
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Copies of this response are available from: Lesley Lockhart, Tel: 0131 225 7324 ext 608 [4 August 2008]
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