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Modernising Medical Careers and BMA working groups start up

  • Published date:
    29 June 2004

Following the recent announcement that the Junior Doctors Committee (JDC) of the BMA and Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) team had agreed to create four groups to provide constructive input to the MMC planning process, membership of the first two groups has now been finalised.

These small working groups will help develop a national structure and plans and ideas generated would be channelled into regular meetings between the JDC and MMC. A group is set up for each of the following: the Foundation Programme, Run-Through Selection, Service Grades and End Point of Training. A number of factions will be represented in these groups including medical students, junior doctors, deaneries, competent authorities and service.

Mr Simon Eccles, Chairman of the BMA's Junior Doctor's Committee said:

"This is a welcome opportunity for those most affected by Modernising Medical Careers to help develop the very best training for all our doctors.

"The JDC has always said that MMC has the potential to bring huge improvements to training and where we have concerns we want to work with the Department of Health to address them."

Professor Alan Crockard, National Director from the MMC, said:

'Modernising Medical Careers is a partnership for the whole medical community. We are pleased that all parts of this community are now working together to provide the modernised career structure that the 21st century requires.'

For further information on the MMC go to the MMC's website

Notes to editor

1. Group activities are defined as follows:

· Group 1 - Foundation Programmes
The first group will concentrate on plans for the implementation of Foundation Programmes. The group is charged with looking at issues of variability in delivery and addressing the concerns of the profession.

· Group 2 - Run-Through Selection
This group will contribute to the design of the scheme that appoints doctors to run-through programmes.

· Group 3 - Service Grades
This group will look at entry and exit criteria and progression within service grades.

· Group 4 - End Point of Training
This group will look at the end point of training and will take in issues like the European Specialist Training Order. It will contribute to identifying at which point one becomes a consultant.

2. For further information, contact Carrie Goddard, MMC Communications Manager on 07730 303 913 or at carrie.goddard@mmc.nhs.uk.

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