There is still no career path in acute general medicine in this country
John. There is clearly a need however. If it does come about I expect such
trainees should concentrate on the more acute 'ologies including cardiac,
chest, gastro together with general unselected "takes". As you go through
the other 'ologies; renal, neuro, rheum, derm they become progressively less
useful. But I also expect such trainees should do 6 to 12 months of ITU with
anaesthesia, and of course they should do 6 to 12 months secondment to A&E!
When fully "grown" I imagine they'll run MAUs, or whatever the latest
acronym is, perhaps with sessions in A&E. But will this be a popular career
path? Possibly, not least because such physicians would have little or no
OPD/clinic commitments!
Adrian Fogarty
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Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 10:40 AM
Subject: Acute Medicine
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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