Some physicians think the current squeeze facing postgraduate medical education was caused by cuts in the number of residency positions. The authors consulted the Canadian Post-MD Education Registry database to determine the actual state of postgraduate training opportunities and to correct erroneous views that may be affecting the debate over training positions. The danger, they say, is that m...

Sir William Osler was the Regius Professor of Medicine in Oxford at the end of World War I. In those days there was a great demand for postgraduate medical education. This was the motive for the foundation of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, under the presidency of William Osler. Osler himself had received his postgraduate education in Europe, from 1872 to 1874, during a two year sabbat...

We are now looking beyond postgraduate training which ends when junior doctors attain consultant status. Medical education is open-ended. It is a continuum which extends from undergraduate through postgraduate or vocational training to continuing medical education for career, or permanent, grades. In his 'President's Review' published last year in the Proceedings of the Royal College of Physici...

WHILST in Northern Ireland arrangements for postgraduate training were developed through the Postgraduate Board of the Medical Faculty as early as 1965, a great stimulus to further development in postgraduate training was given by the publication of the Report of the Royal Commission on Medical education. Refresher courses for general practitioners were already well developed, and training comm...