A Review of Competency Based Orthopaedic Training in the UK: A Trainee’s Perspective

This review explores the concepts and methodology in competency based education, with reference to orthopaedic training in the United Kingdom. In 2006, a new competency based curriculum for postgraduate training in Trauma and Orthopaedics was approved by the Postgraduate Medical Education Training Board. Though the curriculum is now widely accepted, few surgeons have a theoretical knowledge of the basis for competency-based medical education, beyond their own area of involvement. This paper explores the theory and concepts behind competency based education in UK orthopaedic training, which is also of relevance to comparable international orthopaedic training systems and the wider surgical specialities. *Corresponding author: Graeme S. Carlile, Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 5DW, United Kingdom, Tel: +61 0449116575; E-mail: [email protected] Received October 09, 2014; Accepted November 29, 2014; Published November 29, 2014 Citation: Carlile GS (2014) A Review of Competency Based Orthopaedic Training in the UK: A Trainee’s Perspective. Orthop Muscul Syst 3: 178. doi:10.4172/21610533.1000178 Copyright: © 2014 Carlile GS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Keyword: Orthopaedic; Competency based orthopaedics; Medical education; OCAP; Surgical training