Revised FP curriculum for trainees

25 August 2011

TRAINEES entering the 2012 foundation programme will be working to a revised curriculum.

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AOMRC) has amended the programme to deal with some of the concerns raised by John Collins’ review in 2010. Professor Collins and Medical Education England’s report criticised it for lacking “a clearly articulated and generally accepted purpose.”

The AOMRC has aimed to give the new curriculum a greater emphasis on long term conditions in response to comments that the syllabus was biased towards acutely ill patients. There has also been more of a focus on the “total patient” as well as on the increasing role of community care.

Formal assessment during foundation training will take place in supervised learning events evenly spread throughout each placement, instead of workplace based assessment. The Collins report described the current arrangements for assessment of foundation trainees as “excessive, onerous and not valued” and recommended that the number of times that foundation doctors are assessed should be cut.

Read the draft curriculum and make a comment here.