This document is the JDC response to changes in rules for immigration, March 2006 updated April 2006, and the effects on junior doctors trained overseas. Some elements have been superseded, but it is retained on the website for completeness sake.
The Information Commissioner’s Office has warned the Department of Health of possible future prosecutions following a security breach earlier in the year on the Medical Training Application Service website.
The medical profession would oppose tighter restrictions on the employment opportunities of overseas doctors and medical students, one of the findings from a survey of BMA members on the recommendations of Sir John Tooke’s independent inquiry into medical training indicates.
The Department of Health has issued a consultation to a wide range of stakeholders, including the BMA. The document may be reviewed here and your comments posted.
Suggested actions the Consultants Committee would recommend consultants take over the coming weeks to try to smooth the transition into Modernising Medical Careers, and minimise adverse effects on services and on consultants' own working lives.
It is vital that consultants have enough time and resources in your Job Plan to fulfil commitments to training. It is particularly important that you ensure you have an adequate number of Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
As a result of the MTAS difficulties, a trust is threatening to cancel already agreed annual leave for consultants so that they will be available to take care of patients during the transition period in August. The CCSC believes that such action in unhelpful and detrimental.
Although it was intended that Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACF) posts commencing in 2007 would be advertised and appointed locally before the main round of recruitment to specialty training, a number of ACF posts were included in the MTAS computer application system.
Following the outcome of the recent Judicial Review there were concerns about its implications for the current recruitment for Specialty Training. The Department of Health has announced that these immigration rules will be held in abeyance for Round 1.
Guidance on academic MMC posts commencing in 2007 and information for trainees considering applying to academic foundation programmes, academic clinical fellowships and clinical lectureships.
There are serious problems with the Implementation of reforms to doctors' training, the BMA warns as the timescale for applications for new specialist posts is announced.
The Education and Training Team have been working tirelessly to communicate with the MMC Team and influence MMC’s implementation wherever possible. This update gives details of the latest situation, and now includes a link to the interview schedule published by MMC and the PMETB trainee survey
Dr Andrew Rowland, vice-chairman of the BMA’s Junior Doctors Committee, comments on an announcement from the Department of Health that there will be at least 18,000 places for doctors entering specialist training in England in 2007.
An update from the BMA Junior Doctors Committee highlighting what the committee considers to be the problems that need to be urgently addressed before the recruitment process in 2007 can go ahead. This document should be read in conjunction with the JDC's call for a delay to the Modernising Medical Careers reforms.
The BMA’s Deputy Chair of the Junior Doctor’s Committee, Dr Tom Dolphin comments on the Government’s announcement that there will be up to 23,000 junior doctor training posts in the UK next year.
A link to the document 'MMC explained' on the Modernising Medical Careers website. This is the MMC's explanation of what the new career framework will look like with definitions of the various stages of training, plus guidance and FAQs for existing SHOs and those completing F2 pilots, and information about selection to specialist and general practice training.
A report produced by the BMA in response to the debate over the recruitment and retention crisis in academic medicine. In order to inspire the next generation of medical academic staff, more visible academic role models are needed. This report is being published to put some examples of ‘role models’ clearly in the public domain.
The Academic Careers Sub-Committee of Modernising Medical Careers and the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (Walport Committee) draft report, with its recommendations for training the researchers and educators of the future.