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Aspects of higher training in emergency medicine

Trainees’ Representative to the Joint Committee on Higher Training in Accident and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr Darren A Kilroy, Emergency Department, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK;
dakilroy{at}doctors.org.uk

Objectives: To devise and develop a structured questionnaire addressing important issues relating to specialist registrar training in emergency medicine in the UK, and to then administer this questionnaire nationally to higher trainees in order to establish current practice and opinion regarding those issues.

Methods: Informal interviews with current trainees were undertaken to identify themes which might be of wider importance in relation to training. The transcriptions were incorporated into a discussion questionnaire which was circulated to other trainees and to members of the Joint Committee on Higher Training in Accident and Emergency. A postal survey was developed from this draft and distributed to all trainees currently registered with the Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine.

Results: The response rate was 75%. Collective responses to certain aspects of training are demonstrated in order to reflect current practice and opinion among UK specialist registrars and to allow further debate.

Conclusion: Development of a structured questionnaire allows issues in relation to training in emergency medicine to be assessed. The findings of the survey allow national data to be presented which will be of interest to trainees and trainers in the UK as well as overseas.

Keywords: medical education; higher specialist training

Abbreviations: FFAEM, Fellowship of the Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine; JCHT(A&E), Joint Committee on Higher Training in Accident and Emergency; RITA, Record of In-service Training Assessment