Medical Education and Training

A comprehensive review of medical education and training, across both undergraduate and postgraduate years, incorporating recent dramatic changes in the ways doctors learn and practice.

Professor Yvonne Carter was appointed as Dean of Warwick Medical School in October 2004, following her role as Vice-Dean of Leicester Warwick Medical Schools. In August 2007 she became a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick with responsibility for regional engagement. She was an academic GP and Honorary Consultant in Primary Care at Coventry Teaching PCT and a Non-Executive Director at the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. She was Chair of the new Comprehensive Local Research Network for West Midlands (South). She developed a research track record in health services research and the evaluation of new models of service delivery. In 2000 Yvonne received an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to health service research. In 2004 she received an Honorary Fellowship from Queen Mary, University of London for services to general practice and primary care. In 2006 Yvonne also won the CBI's First Woman of Science Award.
Professor Neil Jackson first entered general practice in 1974 and worked for 25 years as a full-time Principal in a semi-rural practice in Epping Forest until retiring from clinical practice in 1999. During this time he developed an interest in postgraduate medical education and training and is a former GP Trainer, Course Organiser and Associate Regional Advisor in General Practice. In 1995 he was appointed Postgraduate Dean for General Practice in the North Thames Deanery and has continued in this role in the London Deanery since 2001. He is also Honorary Professor of Medical Education at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a former MRCGP Examiner. For the past several years he has worked as Visiting Family Medicine and Primary Care Consultant in countries of the former Russian Federation, including Georgia and Uzbekistan and more recently Japan and Poland. He is currently a Leader Visitor for PMETB and has recently been appointed as a PMETB Partner.

1: Sir David Irvine: Professionalism and professional regulation
2: Richard Hays: Measuring professionalism
3: Yvonne Carter and Neil Jackson: Educational standards
4: Angela Coulter: Patients' expectations
5: Chris McManus and Michael J Goldacre: Predicting career destinations
6: Val Wass: Extending learning into the community
7: Peter Cantillon and Liam Glynn: Peer-assisted learning
8: Val Wass and Cees van der Vleuten: Assessment in medical education and training (1)
9: Gareth Holsgrove and Helena Davies: Assessment in medical education and training (2)
10: Fiona Patterson, Pat Lane and Victoria Carr: Selection methods for medicine: core concepts and future issues
11: Neil Johnson and David Davies: Continuing professional development
12: Isobel Down and John Clark: Medical leadership
13: Geoff Meads: Learning from other countries
14: Ed Peile: Maturing learners
15: Michael J Bannon: The European Working Time Directive and Postgraduate Medical Training: challenge or opportunity?
16: Isobel Bowler: Doctors in training: their views and experiences
17: David Wall: Doctors in difficulty
18: John Spencer: Fitness to practise
19: Sue Morrison: Interprofessional learning and working in medical education and training
20: Neil Jackson and Jonathan Burton: Work-based learning and the development of the NHS workforce
21: Sue Morrison and Neil Jackson: Leadership and management in education and training
22: Anne Hastie: Flexible working and training
23: Rex Bird: Equality and diversity
24: Ann Slowther and John Spicer: Ethical and legal issues