PMETB and article 14: lost opportunity?

2008 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 116-117
Author(s):  
John Black

Lack of transparency and lack of public scrutiny are anomalies in the medical world these days – except it appears for the article 14 process of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB). The busy surgeons involved in assessing applications, while being passionate about keeping surgery safe, give their time freely because they believe the country needs more surgeons. There is now unfortunately a groundswell of opinion that their involvement is being used to give credibility to a process which is not fit for surgery. Because of the way PMETB works, public scrutiny over the competence of surgeons admitted to the specialist register by this route has been lost.

2006 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Franklin

Many of you will know that Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) is well under way. The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) is also well established and is changing the way postgraduate medical training is run and assessed. PMETB guidance is already having an influence on dental training at deanery level. The GDC has approved the specialist list review and some of the recommendations mirror those of PMETB.


2010 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-96
Author(s):  
M Bradburn ◽  
S Kendall ◽  
A Young ◽  
L Sher

In 2003, UK legislation established a new regulatory body to develop a single, unifying framework for postgraduate medical and dental education and training: the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB). This new independent statutory organisation came into being on 30 September 2005 and set about a systematic examination of existing practice, as well as asking all 57 recognised specialties to submit formal curricula to them for approval. This review of practice translated into a policy document entitled Generic standards for training (April 2006), later updated in July 2008. In December 2008 the Joint Committee on Surgical Training (JCST) published a surgical version of this, the JCST Standards for Surgical Training.


2011 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-103
Author(s):  
R Raychowdhury

The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) was established by an act of Parliament in 2003, to set standards for postgraduate medical education and training and to ensure that those standards are met. On 30 September 2005 PMETB took over the functions of the Specialist Training Authority and the Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice. Under article 14(4) of the regulations governing PMETB, doctors whose training or qualifications and experience, considered together, meet the requirements of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) programme in one of the standard CCT specialties, may apply to PMETB for a statement of eligibility for registration. This in turn allows application to the General Medical Council for admission to the specialist register.


2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 431-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Brown

The Postgraduate Education and Training Board (PMETB) was established by the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education and Qualifications) Order, approved by parliament on 4 April 2003 to develop a single, unifying framework for postgraduate medical education and training across the UK. The Order placed a duty on the Board to establish, maintain and develop standards and requirements relating to all aspects of postgraduate medical education and training in the UK.


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