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Training Programmes

Principles and Standards for Postgraduate Medical Education Training Programmes

Principle 1

High quality patient care depends on sound education and training

Standards

Principle 2

Programmes must follow the guidance set out in the General Medical Council’s guidance ‘Good Medical Practice’

Standards

1. The learning outcomes must be based on the standards of professional practice set out in Good Medical Practice:

   1. Good clinical care

   2. Maintaining good medical practice

   3. Relationships with patients

   4. Working with colleagues

   5. Teaching and training

   6. Probity

   7. Health

Principle 3

Programmes must have a defined curriculum to enable trainees to achieve the Programme’s learning outcomes

Standards

1. The curriculum must include details of the intended learning outcomes and a syllabus of knowledge, skills and professional attitudes and behaviours

2. The curriculum must allow training and learning to be delivered flexibly in  ways that are  relevant and meet the learning needs of the trainee

3. The curriculum must:

   1. Provide experiential learning through systematic clinical training. This must include experience with patients in appropriate clinical settings.

   2. Involve the trainees in the supervised delivery of service

   3. Provide regular formal educational sessions that cover topics of value and topics of interest to the trainee

4. The curriculum must include a systematic programme of valid and reliable formative and summative assessments

5. There must be a clear statement of responsibility for the different aspects of the Programme

Principle 4

Programmes must be sensitive to the trainee’s individual needs

Standard

1. The curriculum must provide:

   1. Opportunities for self-directed learning

   2. Regular feedback from educational supervisers and trainers to the trainee.

   3. Appropriate career advice and counselling

   4. Processes for extra support

   5. Processes for remediation and retraining

Principle 5

Selection for entry to Programmes must be fair

Standards

1. The selection procedures must be valid and reliable

2. There must be explicit, published entry criteria and selection processes for each programme

Principle 6

Programmes must promote equality and value diversity within the profession

Standards

1. Selection and assessment procedures must be open and comply with current equal opportunities legislation

2. Arrangements must support trainees to train and work flexibly

3. Arrangements must support trainees who have special needs

4. Programmes must be designed to support the needs of doctors who may enter training at a number of different levels with varying levels of knowledge and skills

Principle 7

Programmes must have explicit quality assurance processes

Standards

1. There must be processes in place for the regular evaluation and review of the Programme and its outputs including the promotion of equality and the valuing of diversity.

2. There must be processes for ensuring that trainees provide information on their supervision, training and clinical experience

Principle 8

Those who have responsibilities for teaching must develop the skills, attitudes and practices of a competent teacher and ensure that trainees are properly supervised

Standards

1. Trainers must demonstrate the acquisition and reinforcement of the appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes

2. The responsibility to support learning and teaching must include clearly defined processes for selecting and training educational supervisors, trainers and other faculty staff

Principle 9

Programmes must be resourced to achieve the Programme’s learning outcomes

Standards

1. There must be adequate resources in the Trust, Primary Care Organisation, Practice or other organisations where the trainee is being placed to allow the training to be undertaken effectively

2. Trainees must have adequate resources to support their personal learning needs

3. There must be adequate resources to support the Programme

Principle 10

Programmes must take place within the regulatory framework laid out in UK law

Standards

1.  All involved in the organisation, management and delivery of programmes must have an appropriate working knowledge and understanding of the regulatory framework in the UK

2.  Trainees must have an appropriate working knowledge and understanding of the regulatory framework in the UK

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