ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on changes made in recent years to postgraduate education and training. It explores how doctors progress in their training following medical school and highlight how curricula, supervision and assessments have changed and the impact that these changes have had on the profession. It was intended that locally delivered training should meet national standards set by the Postgraduate and Medical Education and Training Board, through better structured and managed programmes using competency-based curricula. Foundation training, implemented by postgraduate deaneries through 25 United Kingdom (UK) Foundation schools, follows a national curriculum and ensures that trainees have opportunities for exposure to a range of specialties through six 4-month placements over the 2-year programme, using workplace-based assessments and feedback to inform professional development.
