I suspect Sir George is being pragmatic
Just been looking at the RCP recommendations on acute medicine/AE interface
All laudable stuff but I suspect budding ologists are not queueing up for the challenging positions doing shift work as a young consultant. Whereas ED specialists know it is inevitable
I may be wrong one of our specialists here has an MRCP and is about to get his FRCP. Very physicianly and eminent - and he is a good Emergency physician as well with FFAEM and a broad training.
Does the career path in Acute Medicine include Specialist Registrar attachments in an Emergency Department?
I would have though at least 1 year as and ED SpR would be mandatory - perhaps it is
JohnC
Is there a career path in Acute Medicine?
This is not a rhetorical question as our Director of Internal Medicine is trying to get his head around the meaning of life and keeps asking me !
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Sir George has been a senior politician (medical) for a long time. The
ability to seem fair is a prerequisite for survival at the higher levels of
public life. I do not know him and have never met him but I am suspicious
of his aims as far as A&E is concerned.
He has a body of support which is from the acute medical specialties. The
future of emergency medicine may take it from its surgical roots and off
into the centre ground of medicine. Some of us may welcome that. I would
miss the current broad speciality with aspects of all areas of clinical
endeavour. I also feel it would lose the very acute reson for its existence
ie the slowness of general medical intervention.
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