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British Journal of Sports Medicine 2000;34:236-237; doi:10.1136/bjsm.34.4.236
Copyright © 2000 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine.
Br J Sports Med 2000; 34:236-237
© 2000 the British Journal of Sports Medicine

Education

Postgraduate medical education: methodology

Gillian Long1, W W Gibbon2

1 Sheffield Children's Hospital, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TH, United Kingdom
2 Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3EX, United Kingdom

Sports medicine is a relatively new and rapidly growing specialty that as yet does not have an organised postgraduate training programme. Currently, doctors enter sports medicine from a variety of backgrounds and rely on ad hoc training. If sports medicine is to be encompassed in the NHS, it is important to address the issue of training and organise effective postgraduate training in the specialty. Sports medicine has the opportunity to develop a training programme from a "clean slate", uncomplicated by existing practice. The specialty therefore has the potential to learn from other examples of good practice and avoid some of the problems experienced with higher specialist training in other specialties.

Postgraduate medical education refers to education provided after full registration and before consultant appointment or equivalent career grade. Medical education should be seen as a continuum, with postgraduate medical education supplementing undergraduate education and being continued after appointment to a . . . [Full text of this article]


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