Having identified a need to develop the knowledge and skills of health care professionals in palliative care, a specialist team from a primary care trust set up a fast-track training programme. This consists of an academic module, a four-week secondment to palliative care settings and a project undertaken in the workplace to bring about a change in practice. The programme has proved successful ...

The Joint Committee for Higher Medical Training has issued a core curriculum for training in accident and emergency medicine. This article highlights some of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes one may usefully gain from a period of 6-12 months in general practice and how this can be integrated and adapted to a career in emergency medicine.

The complex and evolving nature of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic poses significant challenges to national international emergency preparedness response. Governments must navigate streams emerging data in real time, synthesising knowledge from diverse sources inform policy. UK government drew on experiences earlier pandemics bridge perceived gaps between social science research policy through secondme...

Did you know that accident and emergency (A&E) registrars have as many as five three month secondments to other specialties during their training? These secondments involve the specialist registrar (SpR) joining a specialty related to A&E in a supernumerary capacity. The aim of the secondments is for the trainee to learn how related specialties manage their acute problems. This article outlines...

Orientating new junior medical staff can be a complex and time consuming task. Traditional models have typically involved a day or longer of lectures. This involves a large number of senior staff being available on the first day of term. It also means that junior staff not present on the first day had any access to an orientation program at all. Evaluation of our program confirmed the belief th...

As part of the South Yorkshire Teaching Partnership, a time secondment Practice Consultant was made to Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). The remit contribute teaching from practitioner's viewpoint. One example curriculum development working with Social Work Skills lead on report writing and court skills days offered BA course. skills, had previously been delivered separately. By using same cas...