The postgraduate clinical tutor.

The postgraduate clinical tutor.

Background Tutors were appointed in the main hospitals of the Birmingham region in 1963 and were given honorary University status. Central administration of postgraduate education is in the hands of the Board of Graduate Studies of the Medical School, which deals with advertisement and finance, leaving detailed arrangements to local hospitals. Our own activities are conducted by a small subcomm...

Role of the clinical tutor.

The role of the clinical tutor.

graduate dean and the chief executive in an NHS trust to oversee the provision of education for doctors in training and to ensure that this is carried out to a satisfactory standard. Many clinical tutors are, in practice if not in name, directors of medical education with a position on the trust board or trust executive committee. They are able to inform trusts about the effect of organisationa...

Thoughts of a general practice clinical tutor.

Early in 1985 I was appointed a course organiser for the vocational training scheme. In the following year the post of general practice clinical tutor became vacant. I had hankered after this job for some time but had rather hoped that it would present itselfat a later date. I certainly had no desire to give up course organising so soon; if I were to take on the post of clinical tutor it would ...

DEMONSTRATED AT THE ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL Clinical History

Dr. J. A. DAVIS: The patient (Case No. 298928, P.M. No. 11116) we are about to discuss was a male infant born on 30 December 1964. He was the child of the third pregnancy of a 25-year-old woman with a proved Fallot's tetralogy. The first pregnancy had ended in an abortion at 3 months; the second yielded a live infant who weighed only 1,420 g. at 37 weeks' gestation and died at the age of 30 hou...