Editorial
Training of junior doctors: the responsibility of consultants and trainers
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With 31 000 doctors currently in training programmes or placements and 23 000 consultants1 it should not be considered surprising that the vast majority of consultants working in the National Health Service (NHS) are involved in training. This role has been emphasised with the incorporation of "teaching and training" as a key attribute by the General Medical Council2 and formalised by the publication of The Doctor as Teacher.3 Teaching and training has become an integral part of the role of the consultant. Is such an approach right? If it is, what exactly are the responsibilities that this places on a consultant? And how might this role develop in the foreseeable future?
In The Doctor as Teacher the General Medical
Council states that "all doctors have a professional obligation to
contribute to the education and training of others . . ..", and that "every doctor should be prepared to oversee the work
of less experienced
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